Benthonellania agastachys Bouchet & Waren 1993
Creators
Description
Benthonellania agastachys Bouchet & Warén, 1993 (Fig. 8 A-D)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 84 sh., DW130.
REMARK
Hernández et al. (2011) reported Benthonellania oligostigma Bouchet & Warén, 1993 from the Canaries, and illustrated a specimen (from the private collection of Winfried Engl, Germany) collected in 330 m depth off Fuerteventura. However B. oligostigma, originally described from off Madeira in 990 m depth, has a much more conical, not cyrtoconoid spire, has about half as many axial ribs as the species found in the Canaries, does not have a thickened outer lip and has a much more blurry spiral sculpture. Conversely, both our specimens and that illustrated by Hernández et al. adjust to Benthonellania agastachys, described from a single juvenile specimen collected in 500 m between Fuerteventura and Cape Juby, Morocco (actually in Moroccan waters but very close to the divide). Benthonellania agastachys was abundant in DW130 and a fully adult shell, with well-developed outer lip, is here figured.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rissoidae
- Genus
- Benthonellania
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Bouchet & Waren
- Species
- agastachys
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Benthonellania agastachys Bouchet, 1993 sec. Ortega & Gofas, 2019
References
- BOUCHET P. & WAREN A. 1993. - Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Mesogastropoda. Bollettino Malacologico supplement 3: 579 - 840. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 140732
- HERNANDEZ J. M., ROLAN E, SWINNEN F., GOMEZ R. & PEREZ J. M. 2011. - Moluscos y conchas marinas de Canarias. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 716 p.