Adontorhina inflata Kamenev & Lisitsyna, 2024

Lisitsyna, Kseniya N. & Kamenev, Gennady M., 2024, New and rare bivalve species for the fauna of the Kuril Islands (northwestern Pacific Ocean): A study of materials collected over 70 years of expeditions (from 1949 to 2019), Zootaxa 5523 (2), pp. 231-253 : 246

Adontorhina inflata Kamenev & Lisitsyna, 2024

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Adontorhina inflata Kamenev & Lisitsyna, 2024: 18–22 , figs 1–5, 8A.

Material examined: 31 specimens from the oceanic slope of the southern Kuril Islands (off the Zelyony Island) and sea slope of Paramushir Island (788– 1,742 m) .

Distribution: Kuril Islands; Sea of Okhotsk; Kamchatka Peninsula (Pacific Ocean) (788– 2,532 m) ( Kamenev & Lisitsyna 2024).

Remarks: This species was recently described from material collected near the Kuril Islands and the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula ( Kamenev & Lisitsyna 2024).

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FIGURE 4. New and rare bivalve species for the fauna of the Kuril Islands. (A, B) Macoma torelli (Kunashir Island, 220 m, shell length 16.0 mm). (C, D) Kellia comandorica (Urup Island, 20 m, shell length 13.2 mm). (E, F) Kellia kussakini (Urup Island, 10 m, shell length 3.8 mm). (G, H) Adontorhina cyclia (Kunashir Island, 200 m, shell length 2.2 mm). (I–L) Adontorhina inflata (Zelyony Island, 1,742 m): I, exterior view of right valve (shell length 1.4 mm); J–L, scanning electron micrographs: (J) right valve (interior view), (K) both valves (dorsal view; RV up), (L) hinge plate of right valve. (M, P) Netastoma japonicum (South Kuril Strait, 25 m, shell length 12.7 mm). Scale bars: J–L=100 μm.