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Chaetoderma montereyense Heath 1911

  • 1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), CEP 13083 - 970 Campinas, SP, Brasil. & marcelsmiranda @ gmail. com; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9594 - 6426 & flaviodp @ unicamp. br; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8193 - 9874
  • 2. Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC, 20013, USA. & stronge @ si. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7181 - 4114
  • 3. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), CEP 13083 - 970 Campinas, SP, Brasil. & marcelsmiranda @ gmail. com; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9594 - 6426 & flaviodp @ unicamp. br; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8193 - 9874 & Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, P. O. Box 6109, CEP 13083 - 970 Campinas, SP, Brasil. & flaviodp @ unicamp. br; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8193 - 9874

Description

montereyense Heath, 1911; Chaetoderma

Chaetoderma montereyensis Heath, 1911: 43, 61–62; pl. 4, figs. 4, 8, 14, 17; pl. 27, figs. 1, 2, 4–11; pl. 37, figs. 2, 3.

Current taxonomic status. Synonym of Chaetoderma argenteum Heath, 1911.

Type locality. Monterey Bay, California, USA, 39–356 fathoms (70–640 m).

Type material. Paralectotypes MCZ 302676 (1 spm + 3 slides), MCZ 302677 (1 spm), 302680 (1 spm); doubtful paralectotypes MCZ 302678 (1 spm + 4 slides), MCZ 302679 (7 spms), and 303626 (1 spm).

Remarks. Heath (1911) described C. montereyense based on examination of 155 specimens from six ‘Albatross’ stations, without designating a type. One individual from an undetermined station was serially sectioned and these slides are currently held in the California Academy of Sciences (CAS 21397); it was referred to as a syntype by Stasek (1966) (and listed by him with former lot number ‘CAS 194’), then as a ‘holotype’ by Scheltema et al. (1991) (this does not qualify as a lectotype designation under ICZN Art. 74.5, because Scheltema did not explicitly indicate that she was selecting that specimen to serve as the name–bearing type), and later designated as a lectotype by Salvini-Plawen (1993). Three of the ‘Albatross’ samples (from stations 4485, 4508 and 4525) appear to be lost, they were listed by Scheltema et al. (1991, tab. 1) as having no ‘extant specimens’, do not appear in the database of the MCZ and were not located in the collection itself. The three remaining samples examined by Heath (1911) from stations 4524, 4523 and 4522, correspond to lots MCZ 302676, 302677 and 302680, respectively, and are also paralectotypes, not paratypes as stated by Scheltema et al. (1991) and Scheltema (1998).

Apart from the six samples originally listed by Heath (1911), two additional samples from ‘Albatross’ stations 4510 and 4526 were also examined by Scheltema et al. (1991). The latter corresponds to MCZ 302679, and the former was split in two lots: MCZ 302678 and MCZ 303626. As pointed out by Scheltema et al. (1991), although Heath (1911) did not list the samples from these stations, he presumably examined them; so, these three MCZ lots can be considered as possible paralectotypes.

Chaetoderma montereyense is currently accepted as a synonym of C. argenteum (MolluscaBase 2020a), as suggested by Scheltema et al. (1991). However, Salvini-Plawen (1993) argued that these species are distinct and both should be considered valid. Scheltema (1998) returned to this controversy, rejecting the arguments of Salvini- Plawen (1993).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 581-593 in Zootaxa 4895 (4) on page 584, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4358964

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MCZ
Family
Chaetodermatidae
Genus
Chaetoderma
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
MCZ 302676 , MCZ 302677 , MCZ 302678 , MCZ 302679
Order
Chaetodermatida
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Heath
Species
montereyense
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Chaetoderma montereyense Heath, 1911 sec. Miranda, Strong & Passos, 2020

References

  • Heath, H. (1911) Reports of the scientific results of the expedition to the tropical Pacific, XIV. The Solenogastres. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 45 (1), 1 - 182.
  • Stasek, C. R. (1966) Harold Heath's Type Solenogasters (Mollusca, Amphineura, Aplacophora) in the California Academy of Sciences, Department of Invertebrate Zoology. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, 52, 1 - 7.
  • Scheltema, A. H., Buckland-Nicks, J. & Chia, F. S. (1991) Chaetoderma argenteum Heath, a Northeastern Pacific aplacophoran mollusk redescribed (Chaetodermomorpha: Chaetodermatidae). The Veliger, 34 (2), 204 - 213.
  • Salvini-Plawen, L. v. (1993) The validity of Chaetoderma montereyense Heath along with Ch. argenteum Heath (Mollusca, Caudofoveata). The Veliger, 36 (4), 405 - 412.
  • Scheltema, A. H. (1998) Class Aplacophora. In: Valentich-Scott, P. J. & Blake, A. (Eds.), Taxonomic atlas of the benthic fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Santa Barbara channel. Volume 8 - The mollusca Part 1: The Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, pp. 3 - 47.