Coralliophila pulchella (A. Adams, 1854)
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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2009n4a2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4546565 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA514C-6B31-FFA7-F0A9-6191FE07FD72 |
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Felipe |
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Coralliophila pulchella (A. Adams, 1854) |
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Coralliophila pulchella (A. Adams, 1854) View in CoL
( Fig. 5C, D View FIG )
Rapana (Rhizochilus) pulchella A. Adams, 1854: 98 View in CoL .
TYPE MATERIAL. — Syntypes ( BMNH 1984112, three figured by Kosuge & Suzuki [1985: pl 40, figs 4, 5] and Higo et al. [2001: 66, G2402]).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Philippines.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — The type material and: Rimatara Is., BENTHAUS, stn DW 2020, 22°37’S, 152°49.1’W, 920-930 m, 1 dd ( Fig. 5C, D View FIG ).
DISTRIBUTION. — Indian Ocean, from Natal, South Africa ( Kosuge & Meyer 1999) and Somalia (Oliverio unpublished). Pacific Ocean, from Kii Peninsula, Japan, southward to the Philippines ( Higo et al. 1999), “rocky bottoms or coral reefs 20-50 m ” ( Tsuchiya 2000). New Caledonia area, alive in 140-152 m (empty shells in 12-433 m: Oliverio 2008b). Austral Islands, one empty shell in 920- 930 m.
REMARKS
Coralliophila pulchella is very similar to Coralliophila carolae D’Attilio & Myers, 1984 , which has been established basing only on subtle features, i.e. a coloured shell and a finer sculpture than C. pulchella . The protoconch is multispiral (2.5+ whorls) with two spiral keels, subsutural prosocline threads and oblong tubercules over each keel. The single shell here recorded is quite probably a fossil, drifted downshore from shallower habitat.
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Coralliophila pulchella (A. Adams, 1854)
Oliverio, Marco 2009 |
Rapana (Rhizochilus) pulchella
A. Adams 1854: 98 |