Pagodula plicilaminata (Verco, 1909)

Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 437-480 : 464

Pagodula plicilaminata (Verco, 1909)

Fig. 5H

Trophon plicilaminatus Verco, 1909: 335 , pl. 24, figs 1-2.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. MUSORSTOM 10: stn DW 1314, 5H), 10 dd; stn CC 1337, 17°03’S, 177°47’E, 635-670 m, 2 17°16’S, 178°15’E, 656-660 m, 7 dd; stn CP 1330, 17°10’S, dd; stn DW 1345, 17°15’S, 178°30’E, 660-663 m, 6 dd; stn CP 177°56’E, 567-699 m, 5 dd; stn CP 1331, 17°02’E, 178°02’E, 1353, 17°31’S, 178°53’E, 879-897 m, 6 lv, 22 dd; stn CP 1354, 694- 703 m, 2 dd; stn CP 1332, 16°56’S, 178°08’E, 640-687 m, 17°43’S, 178°55’E, 959-963 m, 4 dd .

4 dd; stn CC 1336, 16°58’S, 177°58’S, 797-799 m, 3 lv (Fig.

DISTRIBUTION. — Indonesia ( Kai Islands ), South Australia, the Coral Sea, southern New Caledonia and Fiji (new record), live in 799-879 m.

REMARKS. — Very young specimens of Pagodula obtuselirata and P. plicilaminata are difficult to separate because they have a similar protoconch and nearly identical morphology of the first and second teleoconch whorls. Therefore a misidentification is always possible in juveniles. Adult specimens of P. plicilaminata are comparatively smaller than P. obtuselirata with more numerous axial lamellae on the last teleoconch whorl and a shorter siphonal canal. Pagodula plicilaminata was transfered to Pagodula , together with P. obtuselirata and other species, by Houart (2001).