Macoma torelli (Jensen, 1905)

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 : 244-245

Macoma torelli (A. S. Jensen, 1905)

( Fig. 4 A, B )

Tellina (Macoma) torelli A. S. Jensen, 1905: 343–345.

Macoma torelli ( Jensen, 1905) — Coan, Valentich-Scott & Bernard 2000: 413, pl. 86. Material examined: two specimens from the ocean slope of Kunashir and Paramushir Islands (74–220 m) .

Distribution: Sea of Japan; Sea of Okhotsk; Kuril Islands; northern Bering Sea; Alaska; Beaufort Sea to Point Barrow; Arctic Ocean (12–237 m) ( Scarlato 1981; Coan, Valentich-Scott & Bernard 2000; Kedra et al. 2010).

Remarks: This is a new record from the region of the Kuril Islands. We assume that this species is distributed throughout the Kuril Islands.

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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.