WoRMS taxon details
Vaughtia babingtoni (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892)
404067 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:404067)
accepted
Species
Murex (Ocenebra) babingtoni G. B. Sowerby III, 1892 · unaccepted (basionym)
Murex (Ocinebra) babingtoni G. B. Sowerby III, 1892 · unaccepted (misspelling of subgenus)
Murex babingtoni G. B. Sowerby III, 1892 · unaccepted (original combination)
Tritonalia aedicularum Barnard, 1969 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tritonalia semidisjuncta W. H. Turton, 1932 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine
Not documented
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Vaughtia babingtoni (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404067 on 2025-05-01
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Tritonalia semidisjuncta W. H. Turton, 1932) Turton, W. H. (1932). The marine shells of Port Alfred S. Africa. Humphrey Milford, London. pp. i-xvi, 1-331, pls 1-70. [published 22 Dec. 1932].
page(s): 76, pl. 18, sp. 551. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Tritonalia aedicularum Barnard, 1969) Barnard, K.H. (1969) Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part VI. Supplement. <i>Annals of the South African Museum</i>, 47: 595–661, 2 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40854994
page(s): 640, fig. 18e. [details]
original description (of Murex (Ocenebra) babingtoni G. B. Sowerby III, 1892) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1892). <i>Marine shells of South Africa. A catalogue of all the known species with references to figures in various works, descriptions of new species, and figures of such as are new, little known, or hitherto unfigured</i>, London: G. B. Sowerby. 89 pp., 5 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1353472
page(s): 2, pl. 1, fig. 1. [details]
basis of record 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): 88 [details]
page(s): 76, pl. 18, sp. 551. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Tritonalia aedicularum Barnard, 1969) Barnard, K.H. (1969) Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part VI. Supplement. <i>Annals of the South African Museum</i>, 47: 595–661, 2 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40854994
page(s): 640, fig. 18e. [details]
original description (of Murex (Ocenebra) babingtoni G. B. Sowerby III, 1892) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1892). <i>Marine shells of South Africa. A catalogue of all the known species with references to figures in various works, descriptions of new species, and figures of such as are new, little known, or hitherto unfigured</i>, London: G. B. Sowerby. 89 pp., 5 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1353472
page(s): 2, pl. 1, fig. 1. [details]
basis of record 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): 88 [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), <i>Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa</i>. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details]
Other
additional source
Lussi M. (2012) Description of three new species of <i>Vaughtia</i> from off the Eastern Cape, South Africa with a revision of the genus (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricidae) from Southern Madagascar. <i>Malacologia Mostra Mondiale</i> 76: 5-13. [July 2012] [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Tritonalia semidisjuncta W. H. Turton, 1932)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Tritonalia aedicularum Barnard, 1969)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Murex babingtoni G. B. Sowerby III, 1892)
To Malacopics (Vaughtia babingtoni (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892) South Africa, Eastern Cape, Algoa Bay...
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Tritonalia semidisjuncta W. H. Turton, 1932)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Tritonalia aedicularum Barnard, 1969)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Murex babingtoni G. B. Sowerby III, 1892)
To Malacopics (Vaughtia babingtoni (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892) South Africa, Eastern Cape, Algoa Bay...
