Gibbula capensis ( Gmelin, 1791 )

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 : 51

Gibbula capensis ( Gmelin, 1791)

Trochus capensis Gmelin, 1791: 3573 . Krauss, 1848: 100. Martens, 1874: 129, no. 100. P. Fischer, 1878 in 1875–1880: 311, pl. 98, fig. 3. Type loc.: ‘ ad caput bonae spei ’ [Cape of Good Hope]; location of type material unknown. Gibbula capensis — Bartsch, 1915: 158. Barnard, 1963a: 277, fig. 18n. Day, 1969: 160. Kensley, 1973: 38, fig. 78. Richards, 1981: 35, pl. 8, fig. 57. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 40, pl. 8, fig. 12. Springsteen, 1982: 3, fig. 21. Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 18, fig. 51. Branch et al., 2010: 174, fig. 76.7. Marais, 2011: 62.

Distribution. W. Cape (Struisbaai) to Namibia (Luderitz); living intertidal and shallow subtidal to 12 m.