Tectus (Cardinalia) virgatus (Gmelin, 1791) Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791: 3580, no. 83. Viader, 1937: 55. Paes da Franca, 1960b: 56, pl. 2, fig. 1. Kensley, 1973: 34, fig. 53. Sheppard, 1984: 46. Jarrett, 2000: 6, fig. 15. Type loc.: ‘ In India ’; location of type material unknown. Trochus (Cardinalia) virgatus — E.A. Smith, 1903a: 388. Lamy, 1909: 330. Barnard, 1963a: 253. Moura, 1972: 21, pl. 2, fig. 6. Zuschin et al., 2009: 102, pl. 12, figs 1–3. Tectus (Cardinalia) virgatus — Moura, 1966: 26, pl. 1, fig. 2. Moura, 1969: 16. Herbert, 1993: 299, figs 109–115 (detailed chresonymy). Deuss et al., 2013: 138, fig. a. Distribution. Red Sea, East Africa and western Indian Ocean islands south to central Zululand (Leven Point) and formerly also in Durban Bay; local specimens living on shallow subtidal reefs to 20 m. Notes. Records from Indonesia and the Philippines seem unlikely (Herbert 1993).

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 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245367