African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828

WoRMS name details

Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828

AphiaID

216344 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216344)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (original combination)

Accepted name

Priotrochus obscurus (W. Wood, 1828)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Priotrochus P. Fischer, 1879
Trochus (Aphanotrochus) E. von Martens, 1880

Parent

Trochus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828

Environment

marine

Original description

Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 17, pl. 5, fig. 26. [details]

Type data

Note Durban Bay, designated by Herbert (1994).

Type locality Durban Bay, designated by Herbert (1994). [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216344 on 2025-07-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

1997-10-08 12:43:35Z

changed

Fondo, Esther

2009-12-07 10:04:53Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2010-11-19 01:15:00Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2015-12-05 12:05:34Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 17, pl. 5, fig. 26. [details]

basis of record Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 98. [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Herbert D.G. (1994). Notes on synonymy within the genus Priotrochus Fischer, 1879 (Prosobranchia: Trochidae). Annals of the Natal Museum 35:139-151. [details]

status source Herbert D.G. (1988). Studies on Priotrochus obscurus and the systematics position of Priotrochus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of zoology 214:561-268. [details]

Other

additional source Issel, A. (1865). Catalogo dei molluschi raccolti dalla missione italiana in Persia aggiuntavi la descrizione delle specie nuove o poco note. Stamperia Reale, Torino, 55 pp, pls 1-3., available online at http://www.internetculturale.it/it/16/search/viewresource?id=oai:www.sba.unifi.it:12:IC0003:RMR0024873&case=&instanceName=mag&descSource=Biblioteca%20digitale&descSourceLevel2=SBA%20-%20Firenze
page(s): 25 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Type locality Durban Bay, designated by Herbert (1994). [details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)