Coralliophila pulchella (A. Adams, 1854)

Oliverio, Marco, 2009, Diversity of Coralliophilinae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Muricidae) at Austral Islands (South Pacific), Zoosystema 31 (4), pp. 759-789 : 770-772

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2009n4a2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4546565

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Coralliophila pulchella (A. Adams, 1854)
status

 

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 — Indian Ocean, from Natal, South Africa ( Kosuge & Meyer 1999) and Somalia (Oliverio unpublished).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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Muricidae

Genus

Coralliophila

Loc

Coralliophila pulchella (A. Adams, 1854)

Oliverio, Marco 2009
2009
Loc

Rapana (Rhizochilus) pulchella

A. Adams 1854: 98
1854
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