Bathysciadium costulatum (Locard, 1898)

Ortega, José Rafael & Gofas, Serge, 2019, The unknown bathyal of the Canaries: new species and new records of deep-sea Mollusca, Zoosystema 41 (26), pp. 513-551 : 517

Bathysciadium costulatum (Locard, 1898)

( Fig. 2A, B )

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 31 sh., DW130.

REMARK

New record for the Canaries, this species was reported from Galicia Bank by Hoffmann et al. (2018), under the name Lepetella ionica F. Nordsieck, 1973 . Warén (1997) figured a syntype on which the radial lines formed by the periostracum are still visible, and reported this species to live on squid beaks deposited on the sea bottom.

Figures

FIG. 2. — A, B, Bathysciadium costulatum (Locard, 1898), shell from DW130 (2.3 mm length); new to Spanish waters; C, D, Copulabyssia corrugata (Jeffreys, 1883), shell from DW130 (1.6 mm length); new to the Canaries; E, F, Profundisepta profundi (Jeffreys, 1877), shell from DW130 (3.6 mm length); new to Spanish waters; G, H, Fissurisepta granulosa Jeffreys, 1883, shell from DW130 (2.3 mm length); new to the Canaries; I-J, Satondella danieli Segers, Swinnen & Abreu, 2009, shell from DW130 (1.8 mm maximum diameter); new to Spanish waters.