Jujubinus suarezensis suarezensis (P. Fischer, 1878)

Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), Zootaxa 4049 (1), pp. 1-98 : 54-55

Jujubinus suarezensis suarezensis (P. Fischer, 1878)

Trochus suarezensis P. Fischer, 1878a: 63 . Type loc.: ‘Diego Suarez, ins. Madagascar’; 17 syntypes in MNHN.

Trochus (Calliostoma) suarezensis — Martens, 1880: 297.

Calliostoma farquhari G.B. Sowerby (III), 1892: 43, pl. 2, fig. 42. Type loc.: Port Elizabeth, erroneous, =Durban (cf. Tomlin 1931: 419); three possible syntypes in NHM (NHMUK 18999.4.14.2090–2092) (cf. Tomlin 1931: 419), another in NMSA (B7415/T2850).

Calliostoma bisculptum E.A. Smith, 1906: 54 , pl. 8, fig. 4. Type loc.: Durban; holotype in NHM (NHMUK 1906.6.23.21), Salvador pers. comm. (iv/2015).

Cantharidus suarezensis — Dautzenberg, 1929: 538. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 40, pl. 8, fig. 5. Kalk, 1995: 255, fig. 9.7d.

Cantharidus fultoni — Barnard, 1963a: 281, figs 14i, 19. Kensley, 1973: 36, fig. 69.

Cantharidus suarezensis suarezensis — Kilburn & Tankard, 1975: 188, fig. 3. Jujubinus suarezensis —Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 24, fig. 73. Jay, 2014.

Distribution. South-western Indian Ocean, from Kenya and Madagascar to southern Mozambique (Inhaca Island) and formerly to Durban Bay (now evidently extinct there); lives on marine grasses in sheltered lagoonal habits.

Notes. Cantharidus suarezensis fultoni (G.B. Sowerby (III), 1889) is an extinct Pleistocene fossil subspecies occurring in raised beach deposits between Algoa Bay and Mossel Bay.

Oxystele Philippi, 1847 . Type species (s.d. Herrmannsen 1847): Trochus merula Chemnitz [= Turbo merula Röding, 1798 , = Trochus sinensis Gmelin, 1791 ].