Tricolia neritina (Dunker, 1846)

Phasianella neritina Dunker, 1846: 110 . Krauss, 1848: 105, pl. 6, fig. 6. Bartsch, 1915: 146. Type loc.: ‘ Prom. bon. spei ’ [Cape of Good Hope]; eight syntypes in ZMB (108.795).

Gena lineata A. Adams, 1850: 39. Type loc.: not given; syntype in NHM (NHMUK 1963308), annotated by Robertson as lectotype, but not published.

Chromotis neritina — H. Adams & A. Adams, 1863: 20.

Phasianella (Chromotis) neritina — Martens, 1880: 293.

Tricolia (Chromotis) neritina — Barnard, 1963a: 210, fig. 3b.

Tricolia neritina — Grindley & Kensley, 1966: 11. Day, 1969: 158. Kensley, 1973: 52, fig. 145. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 47, pl. 9, fig. 8. Robertson, 1985: 24. Branch et al., 2010: 180, fig. 79.10. Nangammbi, 2010: 162, figs 2.56–2.60 (detailed chresonymy). Nangammbi et al. in press.

Phasianella neritina — Jarrett, 2000: 9, fig. 29.

Distribution. Eastern Cape (Port Alfred) to Namibia (Luderitz); intertidal.

Notes. Records from Mauritius (Martens 1880) and the Seychelles (Jarrett 2000) are erroneous (probably based on mislocalised specimens). Tricolia munieri Vélain, 1876, from Île S t -Paul, is very similar and may prove to be a synonym. The taxon Chromotis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1863, of which Phasianella neritina Dunker, 1846 is the type species, is not genetically distinct from Tricolia (Nangammbi et al. in press).