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Brookula argentina Zelaya, Absalao & Pimenta 2006

Description

Brookula argentina (Zelaya, Absalão & Pimenta, 2006)

(Figs 1–2)

Benthobrookula argentina Zelaya, Absalão & Pimenta, 2006: 79 –80, fig. 4.

Holotype (MLP: 11977), not examined, SEM images available in Zelaya et al. (2006). Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, South Georgia (54°18’S 35°30’W), 94 m (OD).

Material examined: Five specimens (ZSM Mol 20070902) from Antarctica, Bransfield Strait, St. PS 56/ 174–01 (63°01.10’S 61°09.10’W to 63°01.30’S 61°08.60’W), 311–365 m, collected during the ANT XVII/3 (EASIZ III) expedition. One specimen (ZSM Mol 20020184) from Antarctica, Bransfield Strait, St. PS 56/ 149–01 (62°30.00’S 56°55.80’W to 62°30.10’S 56°56.10’W), 909–911 m, collected during the ANT XVII/3 (EASIZ III) expedition, leg. Michael Schrödl.

Remarks: The new material considerably extends the geographic and bathymetric range of this species that formerly was known from its type locality only (Fig. 2).

Other

Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico & Engl, Winfried, 2008, Description of two new deep­water species of the genus Brookula Iredale, 1912 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Trochoidea), with a revision of the genus for the Subantarctic and Arctic Sector of the Atlantic Ocean *, pp. 187-204 in Zootaxa 1866 on pages 190-191, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183706

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Liotiidae
Genus
Brookula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Seguenziida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Zelaya, Absalao & Pimenta
Species
argentina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Brookula argentina Zelaya, 2006 sec. Schwabe & Engl, 2008

References

  • Zelaya, D. G., Absalao, R. S. & Pimenta, A. D. (2006) A revision of Benthobrookula Clarke, 1961 (Gastropoda, Trochoidea) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 72 (1), 77 - 87.