Clanculus (Clanculus) puniceus (Philippi, 1846) Monodonta punicea Philippi, 1846: 100, no. 13. Type loc.: ‘Nova Zeelandia?’ [New Zealand], erroneous, emended to Durban by Herbert (1993: 267); type material perhaps in MNHNC, none in ZMB. Trochus puniceus — Krauss, 1848: 100. Clanculus puniceus — Barnard, 1963a: 246, fig. 14a. Kensley, 1973: 38, fig. 73. Richards, 1981: 35, pl. 8, fig. 62. Springsteen, 1981: 3, fig. 1. Kilburn & Rippey, 1982: 40, pl. 8, fig. 9. Steyn & Lussi, 1998: 22, fig. 63. Branch et al., 2010: 174, fig. 76.4. Deuss et al., 2013: 136, fig. f. Clanculus (Clanculus) puniceus — Herbert, 1993: 261, pl. 1b, figs 2, 8, 36–46 (detailed synonymy and chresonymy). Distribution. East Africa and islands of the western Indian Ocean, extending south to the KwaZulu-Natal south coast (Port Shepstone); living LST and shallow subtidal reefs to 22 m. Subgenus Clanculopsis Monterosato, 1879. Type species (s.d. Sacco 1896): Trochus cruciatus Linnaeus, 1758.

Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), pp. 1-98 in Zootaxa 4049 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245367