WMSD - Worldwide mollusc species DB - Afrocominella capensis

Class: GASTROPODA
--- Taxon Tree: CAENOGASTROPODA [Subclass] - NEOGASTROPODA [Order] - BUCCINOIDEA [Superfamily]
------ Family: BUCCINIDAE Rafinesque, 1815 (Sea)
--------- SubFamily: BUCCININAE
------------ Genus: Cominella (Afrocominella) T. Iredale, 1918

--------------- Species: Afrocominella capensis (R.W. Dunker in R.A. Philippi, 1844) - ID: 1921400055

South Africa, False Bay - 227 mm

synonyms:
Fusus capensis R.W. Dunker in R.A. Philippi, 1844	Euthria lacertina A.A. Gould, 1860

Additional DB records:
Paternoster, West Coast RSA - 54 mm	Cape Agulhas, RSA - 48 mm	Cape Agulhas S. Africa - 43 mm
Cape Agulhas, RSA - 42 mm	Hout Bay, RSA - 39 mm	Cape South Africa - 36 mm
Mossel Bay S. Africa - 34 mm	Mossel bay S. Africa - 24.7 mm	Hout Bay area, South Africa - 24 mm
Cape Hangklip, RSA - 24 mm	Kommetjie, Atlantic Cape Coast - 227 mm	False Bay, South Africa - 58 mm
South Africa, Agulhas Point	South Africa, Arniston	South Africa, Cape Agulhas
South Africa, Cape Province, Paternoster	South Africa, Cape Saint Blaize, Mossel Bay	South Africa, Capetown Cape Town, Kaapstad
South Africa, Die Kelders	South Africa, Houtjes, Saldanha Bay	South Africa, in beach sand, East London
South Africa, Jeffreys Bay	South Africa, Natal Province, Port Shepstone	South Africa, Platboom, W side Cape Point
South Africa, Port Alfred	South Africa, Sea Point	South Africa, Togaat Beach

------------------ Sub or form: Afrocominella capensis simoniana (S.A.A. Petit De La Saussaye, 1852) - ID: 1926200000

South Africa, Algoa Bay - 41,5 mm

synonyms:
Cominella alfredensis P. Bartsch, 1915	Cominella elongata R.W. Dunker, 1857
Afrocominella elongata R.W. Dunker, 1857	Afrocominella multistriata W.H. Turton, 1932
Euthria multistriata W.H. Turton, 1932	Euthria simoniana S.A.A. Petit De La Saussaye, 1852
Fusus simonianus S.A.A. Petit De La Saussaye, 1852	Glypteuthria solidissima J.R. le B. Tomlin, 1932

Additional DB records:
East London, RSA - 49,2 mm	Jeffreys Bay South Africa - 48 mm	Algoa Bay, South Africa - 45 mm
South Africa, Jeffreys Bay - 45 mm	Jeffreys Bay South Africa - 44 mm	Port Elizabeth S. Africa - 42 mm
South Africa - 40 mm	East London, South Africa - 40 mm	Algoa Bay, South Africa - 40 mm
South Africa - 38 mm	S.Africa - 37,15 mm	SouthAfrica, Algoa Bay - 37 mm
Agulhas Bank S. Africa - 37 mm	South Africa - 36 mm	Port Alfred, SA - 35 mm
East London, South Africa - 33 mm	South Africa - 33 mm	Algoa Bay, South Africa - 33 mm
Port Elizabeth South Africa - 32 mm	South Africa - 31 mm	Trivia aperta 19.2mm - 28 mm
Agulhas Bank, South Africa - 27 mm	Port Elizabeth South Africa - 27 mm	Algoa Bay, South Africa - 27 mm
Agulhas Bank, RSA - 26 mm	Algoa Bay, South Africa - 25 mm	Agulhas Bank, South Africa - 24 mm
Algoa Bay, South Africa - 19 mm	Agulhas Bank, RSA - 16 mm	Cape Agulhas, South Africa - 30 mm
Trivia aperta 19, 2mm - 28 mm	South Africa, Cape Agulhas	South Africa, Cape Peninsula, Llandudno Bay
South Africa, De Kelders	South Africa, Jeffreys Bay	South Africa, Port Elizabeth

Image from Claudio Galli

Cape Agulhas, South Africa - 30 mm

Wrong data? please email to: Claudio Galli - last updated: 27/ago/2017