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Caecum austrafricanum Vannozzi, Pizzini & Raines, 2015

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Species
Caecum Fleming in Brewster, 1813
austrafricanum
Vannozzi, Pizzini & Raines
Vannozzi, Angelo, Mauro Pizzini & Bret Raines. 2015 Revision of South African Caecidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). African invertebrates 56(1): 99–136.
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Figs 4A–H, 7, 22F–H, 23F–H, 24A, 25N, O
Holotype (Figs 4A–C, 22F, 23F): lv, SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape: Algoa Bay, vi.1976 (W9655/T3349), length 2.11 mm, min. diam. (posterior end) 0.32 mm, diam. in the middle of the tube 0.41 mm, max. diam. (apertural end) 0.44 mm. Paratypes: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape: 18 lv and 166 sh (9 juv), Knysna, Gericke Point, Sedgefield (NMSA W9659/T3352); 18 lv and 245 sh (23 juv), Walker’s Point, W of Knysna, leg. J.P. Marais iii.1991 (NMSAW9656/T3351); 1 sh (worn), Cape Overberg, Onrus R., ± 5 km W of Hermanus, in sand under rock in sheltered rockpool (NMSA S2626/T3879); 1 sh, Hermanus (between False Bay and Cape Agulhas), v.1990 (JPM); 1 lv and 24 sh, Walker’s Bay, W of Knysna, iii.1991 (JPM); 3 sh, False Bay, Miller’s Point, purch. Mrs C.M. Connolly i.1974 (NMSA A1879/T3877); Eastern Cape: 5 lv and 47 sh (1 with two attached stages), same data as holotype (JPM); 4 lv (with opercula in small glass vials), Algoa Bay, off Cape Recife, -25 m, debris from bryozoan colony, dived B. Hayes, xii.1992 (NMSA V115/T3353); 6 sh (1 juv), Algoa Bay, Humewood sand, don. F. Graeve, v.1977 (NMSA A5589/T3350); 2 lv and 22 sh, Fish R. mouth (between Port Alfred and East London), iv.1978 (JPM 2117); KwaZulu-Natal: 1 lv and 1 sh, Aliwal Shoal, off Umkomaas, -27 m, silt from between rocks, dived G. Smith, don. J.P. Marais iii.1988 (NMSA E1670/T3878); 1 sh, Aliwal Shoal, off Scottburgh, -25–27 m, sand and reef debris (NMSA S7078/T3880).
SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape: Algoa Bay.
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