Bichoristes McLean, 1992

Herbert, David G., 2024, The Vetigastropoda (Mollusca) of Walters Shoal, with descriptions of two new genera and thirty new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 923, pp. 1-119 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.923.2445
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10727885
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scientific name	Bichoristes McLean, 1992
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Genus Bichoristes McLean, 1992 View in CoL

Type species

Bichoristes wareni McLean, 1992 View in CoL (original designation), Recent, Norfolk Ridge.

Remarks

Bichoristes is a monotypic genus and is the only choristellid in which the shell is planispiral rather than helically coiled. However, the jaw and radula closely resemble those of other choristellid genera ( McLean 1992) and thus like them, B. wareni is assumed to live within spent elasmobranch egg cases and to feed on decomposing bacteria growing on the inner egg case wall.