Limifossor fratula, Heath, 1911

Miranda, Marcel S., Strong, Ellen E. & Passos, Flávio D., 2020, Type specimens of Caudofoveata (Mollusca, Aplacophora) in the molluscan collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Zootaxa 4895 (4), pp. 581-593 : 586

fratula Heath, 1911 ; Limifossor

Limifossor fratula Heath, 1911: 44 , 72; pl. 2, fig. 6; pl. 4, fig. 13; pl. 35, figs. 1–5, 10; pl. 36, fig. 8.

Type locality. San Diego , Southern California (32°42’0”N, 117°14’0”W), USA, 260–284 fathoms (475–520 m) .

Type material. Syntype MCZ 362003 (1 dried spm) .

Remarks. Heath (1911) described this species based on examination of two specimens from ‘Albatross’ station 4369 without designating a type. One of these specimens was prepared for histological sections which are deposited in the California Academy of Sciences, San Fransciso, USA; Stasek (1966) referred to these slides and to another one with sclerites as syntypes. The second syntype, MCZ 362003, was photographed and figured by Salvini-Plawen (1992, fig. 2; as a ‘paratype’); this is currently maintained dried in the MCZ collection.