OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
Data as of: 2006-05-17
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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae
Festilyria ponsonbyi (E.A. Smith, 1901)
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Alcithoe ponsonbyi auct
Voluta (Alcithoe) ponsonbyi Smith, 1901
Distribution
north Natal to the eastern Transkei coast {POPPE1992A}
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: East Africa: South Africa
Keywords
depth: continental shelf
References
Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. p.58, pl. 6, figs 5-6 [ synonymy, distribution, habitat, description and remarks
] General reference
Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. p.59, pl. 21E-F [ synonymy, type information, distribution, habitat, description, animal and radula (fig. 11b) and remarks
] General reference
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Visceroconcha
Gastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Sorbeoconcha
Hypsogastropoda
Neogastropoda
Volutoidea
Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
Volutinae Swainson, 1840
Festilyria Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954
Festilyria ponsonbyi (E.A. Smith, 1901)
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=36989) created by Shannon Reid on 2001-01-29. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-05-12.