African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Afritrophon kowieensis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1901)

WoRMS taxon details

Afritrophon kowieensis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1901)

AphiaID

399103 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:399103)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Afritrophon Tomlin, 1947

Original name

Trophon kowieensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1901

Synonymised names

Trophon kowieensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1901 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Trophon kowieensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1901) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1901). On seven new species of marine Mollusca collected by Dr. H. Becker at “The Kowie”, South Africa. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 4: 213–215, pl. 22., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15798167
page(s): 213, pl. 22 fig. 16 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Eastern Cape, Province of the

type locality contained in Eastern Cape, Province of the [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Afritrophon kowieensis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1901). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=399103 on 2025-07-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-06-13 16:24:59Z

created

Houart, Roland

2011-07-13 02:18:47Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-07-02 14:26:34Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Trophon kowieensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1901) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1901). On seven new species of marine Mollusca collected by Dr. H. Becker at “The Kowie”, South Africa. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 4: 213–215, pl. 22., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15798167
page(s): 213, pl. 22 fig. 16 [details]

basis of record Houart, R. (1987) Revision of the subfamily Trophoninae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in Southern Africa, with description of four new species. Apex 2(2): 25-58. [April 1987] [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Houart, R.; Kilburn, R. N. & Marais, A. P. (2010). Muricidae. pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details]