OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae 

Festilyria queketti (E.A. Smith, 1901)

Type of listing: Name in current use

Synonymy

   Lyria queketti auct
   Voluta (Lyria) queketti Smith, 1901

Distribution

Mozambique south to Durban {POPPE1992A}

  OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: East Africa: South Africa
  OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: East Africa: Mozambique

Keywords

depth: continental shelf [ Trawled on the continental shelf {POPPE1992A} ]
depth: continental shelf 
depth: continental slope 
substrate: rubble [ collected on Xenophora pallidula (Reeve), indicating a habitat of rubble bottoms {POPPE1992A} ]

References

 Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. p.59, pl. 7, figs 1-4 [ synonymy, distribution, habitat, description and remarks ]  General reference
 Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. p.24, pl. 6C-E [ as Lyria (Lyria) queketti, synonymy, type information, distribution, habitat, description, animal and radula (fig. 4d-e) 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 queketti (E.A. Smith, 1901)

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=36993) created by Shannon Reid on 2001-01-29. Record last updated by Shannon Reid on 2003-05-12.