OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
Data as of: 2006-05-17
ANSP OBIS Home | Another Search
Bivalvia Mytiloida Mytilidae
Arcuatula capensis (Krauss, 1848)
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Lamya capensis auct.
Modiola elegans (non Philippi, ***) of Sowerby 1889b: 158. Not Lamya capensis of Boshoff & Field, 19
Modiola capensis Krauss, 1848
Modiola tenerrima Smith, 1904
Distribution
from around the south and east coasts of Africa, from the Klein River estuary, Hermanus, to Inhambane in southern Mozambique (Davies 1980)
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: East Africa
OBIS Regions: Temperate Indo-West Pacific: Southern Hemisphere: South Africa (Cape marine Province)
Keywords
habitat: estuarine [ exclusively estuarine
]
habitat: rocks
substrate: boulders [ attached to rocky outcrops and boulders
]
substrate: mud [ mud and deposition zones
]
References
Barnard, K.H. 1964. p.397 fig 8 e-g General reference
Davies, B.R. 1980. p.226 [ synonymy; ecology; distribution
] Secondary source
Kilburn, R. N. . General reference
Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. 1982. p.159, pl. 36, fig. 7, textfig. 116 General reference
Reunov, A.A. & Hodgson, A.N. 1994. p.279, figs 3D,4E Biology and ecology
Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. 1998. p. 198, fig. 807 General reference
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Loboconcha
Bivalvia
Pteriomorphia
Mytiloida
Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815
Arcuatula Lamy, 1919
Arcuatula capensis (Krauss, 1848)
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=61205) created by Peter Ulrik Middelfart on 2001-12-20. Record last updated by Peter Ulrik Middelfart on 2004-09-05.