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Priotrochus obscurus (W. Wood, 1828)

AphiaID

546929 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:546929)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Priotrochus P. Fischer, 1879

Original name

Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828

Synonymised names

Monilea (Priotrochus) obscura (W. Wood, 1828) · unaccepted

Monilea obscura (W. Wood, 1828) · unaccepted

Monodonta obscura (W. Wood, 1828) · unaccepted

Trochus (Aphanotrochus) obscurus W. Wood, 1828 · unaccepted

Trochus (Priotrochus) obscurus W. Wood, 1828 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828 · unaccepted (original combination)

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Subspecies Priotrochus obscurus obscurus (W. Wood, 1828)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. 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

Type locality contained in Durban Bay

type locality contained in Durban Bay [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Priotrochus obscurus (W. Wood, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=546929 on 2026-01-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-11-19 01:15:00Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-07-10 01:41:48Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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Nomenclature

original description (of Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. 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 Herbert D.G. (1988). A new species of Priotrochus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) from south-east Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 29(2):503-507. [details]

Other

additional source Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
page(s): 36, fig. 48. [details]

additional source Herbert D.G. (2015). An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca). Zootaxa. 4049(1): 1-98., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1
page(s): 59 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Zuschin, M., Janssen, R. & Baal, C. (2009). Gastropods and their habitats from the northern Red Sea (Egypt: Safaga). Part 1: Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda and Cycloneritimorpha. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 111[A]: 73–158.
page(s): 104 [details]

additional source Fowler, O. (2016). Seashells of the Kenya coast. ConchBooks: Harxheim. Pp. 1–170.
page(s): 15. [details]

additional source Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 24 [details]