Montacuta Turton 1822
- 1. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2259 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA
- 2. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X 3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
- 3. Sea Change Trust, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa & Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X 1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa
- 4. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, 1900 Pleasant Street, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Description
Montacuta Turton, 1822
Montacuta Turton, 1822. Type species (subsequent designation) Ligula substriata Montagu, 1808. Recent, North Atlantic Ocean.
Description.
Shell small (length less than 5 mm), subovate to subelliptical, moderately thin, translucent to opaque, gaping ventrally in some; sculpture of commarginal striae and ribs, weak, widely spaced radial ribs in some; periostracum thin to thick, translucent to dark brown; hinge plate narrow, each valve with low anterior cardinal tooth; ligament internal, large, elongate; mantle sparsely papillate, reflected, covering some of outer shell surface; without mantle tentacles; foot elongate, thin, trigonal, heel absent; with one demibranch on each side.
Discussion.
While this genus is widely distributed in the North Atlantic, Mediterranean, and eastern Australia, this is only the second record from southern Africa. Kamenev (2008) provides a comprehensive description of the genus along with SEM images of the type species, Montacuta substriata.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Montacutidae
- Genus
- Montacuta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Galeommatida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Turton
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Montacuta Turton, 1822 sec. Valentich-Scott, Griffiths, Landschoff, Li & Li, 2024
References
- Turton W (1822) Conchylia Insularum Britannicarum. The shells of the British Islands, systematically arranged. Collum, Exeter, xlvii + 279 pp. [20 pls.] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10443
- Montagu G (1808) Supplement to Testacea Britannica. With additional plates. White, London / Woolmer, Exeter, v + 183 + [5] pp, pls 17 - 30 (post- 1 Oct.).
- Kamenev GM (2008) Little-known arctic species Montacuta spitzbergensis (Bivalvia: Montacutidae) from the north-western Pacific with notes on Montacuta substriata and Tellimya ferruginosa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 88 (2): 347–356. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315408000568