Lophiotoma notata ( Sowerby, 1889 )

Li, Baoquan & Li, Xinzheng, 2008, Report on the turrid genera Gemmula, Lophiotoma and Ptychosyrinx (Gastropoda: Turridae: Turrinae) from the China seas, Zootaxa 1778, pp. 1-25 : 19-20

Lophiotoma notata ( Sowerby, 1889)

(Pl. 3, fig. 6)

Pleurotoma notata Sowerby, 1889: 566 , pl. 28, fig. 17. Turris notata . — Habe 1962: 77, pl. 38, fig. 16.

Lophiotoma acuta . — Powell, 1964: 305, pl. 234; 1966.50. (not Perry, 1811) Lophiotoma notata . — Tucker, 2004: 687.

Material examined. SCS. 2 spms, CN N67B-41, 19 °30’N, 111°00’E, shell debris & coarse sand, 38 m, AT, 13. VII. 1959; 1 spm, CN L 69B-52, 20 °00’N, 111°15’E, silty mud, 52 m, BT, 25. IV. 1959; 2 spms, CN R28B-9, 18 °30’N, 110°30’E, coarse sand, 103 m, AT, 10. VII. 1959; 1 spm, CN Q93B-64, 18 °45’N, 110°30’E, coarse sand, 31 m, AT, 24. XI. 1959; 1 spm, CN 16-44, 21 °30’N, 113°45’E, 38 m, BT, 17. III.

1959; 1 spm, CN R29B-231, 18 °15’N, 110°30’E, coarse sand, 120 m, AT, 10. VII. 1959; 4 spms, CN N177B- 56, 19 °15’N, 111°00’E, coarse sand & shell debris, 67 m, AT, 8. IV. 1960. Nansha Islands. 3 spms, CN SSBIV-41, 4 °30’N, 110°00’E, 107 m, 15. III. 1987; 1 spm, CN Ns4B-4, 5 °00’N, 112°00’E, silty mud, 105 m, 7. X. 1993; 1 spm, CN SSB10-6, 4 °30’N, 110°30’E, 100 m, 23. IX. 1994.

Measurements (mm).

Distribution. Commonly distributed in Indo-West Pacific. Beibu Gulf, South China Sea, Nansha Islands; Red Sea and East Africa to Japan and Malanesia.

Remarks. Powell (1964) treated the Pleurotoma notata Sowerby, 1889 as a junior synonym of Pleurotoma acuta Perry, 1811 , and provided a figure of Sowerby’s (1889) holotype from Hong Kong. Tucker (2004) still treated Lophiotoma notata ( Sowerby, 1889) (= Pleurotoma notata Sowerby, 1889 ) as a separated species from Lophiotoma acuta (Perry, 1811) (= Pleurotoma acuta Perry, 1811 ). The present specimens agree exactly with Sowerby’s (1889) holotype. We follow Tucker (2004) and identified them as Lophiotoma notata ( Sowerby, 1889) .