STOMATELLINAE Gray, 1840

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 : 61

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A8BD434E-9A7C-40A5-BDDE-D45356517FF3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5630809

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA87EF-701E-8939-F99F-FF2C4EFE6BE8

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scientific name

STOMATELLINAE Gray, 1840
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SUBFAMILY: STOMATELLINAE Gray, 1840 View in CoL View at ENA

No stomatelline vetigastropods have been previously recorded from South Africa. However, during the 1980s and 1990s a considerable amount of stomatelline material was collected in northern Zululand by diving and dredging. To date this material has not been worked through thoroughly and revised. This is mostly due to the fact that the taxonomy of stomatelline gastropods is woefully inadequate and confused. Many nominal species are mere colour variants of others, and many were poorly described and illustrated. The subsequent application of names in the more modern literature has lacked consistency and the type material has rarely been consulted and illustrated using modern methods. Consequently, published figures of identified specimens rarely inspire confidence that the material is correctly named. Similar confusion surrounds the use of supraspecific names within the Stomatellinae since these are mostly based on shell characters alone and the taxa remain poorly circumscribed. Monographic revisionary studies with reference to type material and type species are badly needed. For the time being I include this material in this checklist primarily to draw attention to the presence of at least seven stomatelline species in South Africa.

# Stomatella Lamarck, 1816 View in CoL . Type species (s.d. Anton 1838): Stomatella auricula Lamarck, 1816 View in CoL (discussed in detail by Herbert 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Family

Trochidae

Loc

STOMATELLINAE Gray, 1840

Herbert, David G. 2015
2015
Loc

Stomatella

Lamarck 1816
1816
Loc

Stomatella auricula

Lamarck 1816
1816
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