Epideira sibogae ( Schepman, 1913 ) Li & Kilburn & Li, 2010

Li, Bao Quan, Kilburn, Richard N. & Li, Xin Zheng, 2010, Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas, Journal of Natural History 44 (11 - 12), pp. 699-740 : 712

* Epideira sibogae ( Schepman, 1913) comb. nov.

( Figure 3A, B )

Drillia sibogae Schepman, 1913, p 415 , pl. 27, fig. 2.

Epidirona sibogae: Fukuda, 1995, p 109 , pl. 65; Higo et al. 1999, p 306.

Material examined

ECS. One specimen, CN V525 B-53, 123°30′ E, 27°30′ N, fine sand, 150 m, AT, 28 August 1976 .

Measurements

See Table 1.

Distribution

ECS; Indonesia (type locality) , Philippines and Japan. Not previously recorded from the China Seas.

Type material (checked by Kilburn)

Three syntypes in ZMAN: these comprise a fresh adult and a worn juvenile ( ZMAN 3.13.101) from Siboga Stn 51, and a worn syntype from Stn 260 (near northern point of Nuhu Jaan, Kei Islands, 90 m) .

Remarks

Only one specimen has been collected from the ECS; this agrees well with photographs of the freshest syntype (Kilburn manuscript). The species has subsequently been recorded from Japanese waters .

Figures

Figure 3. Species of subfamily Crassispirinae. (A, B) Epideira sibogae (ECS, CN V525B-53); (C, D) Epideira multiseriata (Beibu Gulf, CN Q225B-7); (E) Inquisitor sp. 1 (ECS, CN H21B- 45); (F, G) Inquisitor vividus sp. nov. (holotype, Nansha Islands, CN SSVIIIB8-30-1, 44 m, 23.2 × 7.0 mm); (H) Ptychobela minimarus (Hainan Island); (I) Paradrillia patruelis (Yellow Sea, CN Y405B-7); (J) Turridrupa deceptrix (Beibu Gulf, CN X202B-18-1).