Coralliophila costularis ( Lamarck, 1816 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2009n4a2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4520182 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA514C-6B3E-FFAF-F0B5-61D0FDA3FA5B |
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Felipe |
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Coralliophila costularis ( Lamarck, 1816 ) |
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Coralliophila costularis ( Lamarck, 1816) View in CoL ( Figs 2 View FIG A-C; 12B)
Murex costularis Lamarck, 1816 View in CoL : pl. 419, figs 8a, b. Coralliophila retusa H. Adams & A. Adams, 1863: 432 View in CoL .
TYPE MATERIAL. — Murex costularis : 2 specimens (the probable holotype MHNG 1099/60/1, 34.0 mm, and a specimen that is probably not a type, 1099/60/2, 26.4 mm: see Oliverio 2008b).
Coralliophila retusa View in CoL : holotype, BMNH 1984094 (figured by Kosuge & Suzuki [1985: pl. 37, fig. 3] and Higo et al. [2001: 65, fig. G2386]).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Murex costularis : not designated. Locality indicated on its box reads “Oc. Indien ”. Coralliophila retusa : unknown.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — The type material and: BENTHAUS, stn DW 2013, Rimatara Is., 22°38.6’S, 152°49.7’W, 80-93 m, 1 juv dd ( Fig. 2C View FIG ). — Stn DW 1948, Banc Lotus, 23°48.7’S, 147°43.5’W, 120-280 m, 1 dd ( Fig. 2A, B View FIG ).
DISTRIBUTION. — Indo-Pacific, intertidal and subtidal ( Cernohorsky 1978). Indian Ocean, from the Red Sea southward to South Africa ( Kosuge & Meyer 1999) and the tropical and subtropical zone, including Eastern Arabia “among corals” ( Bosch et al. 1995). Western Pacific Ocean, intertidal to 20 m depth associated with scleractinians ( Tsuchiya 2000). From the New Caledonia area and Fiji, alive in 12-40 m ( Oliverio 2008b). Austral Islands, two empty shells in 93-120 m, probably drifted from shallower waters.
REMARKS
Coralliophila costularis is a common shallow water species throughout its Indo-West Pacific range. The present record is based on a single adult empty shell and a single juvenile, both dredged in deep waters. The protoconch of the juvenile was available for SEM ( Fig. 12B View FIG ), and showed 4.3 whorls, 590 µm high and 710 µm wide at the base. Protoconch I of one whorl, apparently smooth. Protoconch II of about 3 ¼ whorls, with two weak spiral keels (the abapical starting on the second protoconch whorl, the adapical starting on the third), sculptured by a series of subsutural threads and a series of opisthocline threads over each keel. A diffuse granulation is present in the interspaces. Coralliophila mira (Cotton & Godfrey, 1932) from southern Australia is very similar although relationships should be tested by genetic data.
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Museum d'Histoire Naturelle |
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Muricoidea |
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Coralliophilinae |
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Coralliophila costularis ( Lamarck, 1816 )
Oliverio, Marco 2009 |
Coralliophila retusa
HIGO S. & CALLOMON P. & GOTO Y. 2001: 65 |
Murex costularis
ADAMS H. & ADAMS A. 1863: 432 |