Solenogastres molluscs from the BENTART Collection (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica), with a description of a new species

Four specimens from the BENTART Collection are studied (South Shetland Islands and Bransfield Strait, Antarctic). Two specimens were identified as: Rhopalomenia carinata Salvini-Plawen, 1978 collected on a muddy, gravel bottom at a depth of 710 m, off Livingston Island, and Rhopalomenia rhynchopharyngeata Salvini-Plawen, 1978 from a muddy bottom at a depth of 235 m off Livingston Island. One specimen, collected from a fine muddy and sandy bottom at a depth of 80 m off Livingston Island, belongs to the genus Neomenia, presenting features which well distinguish the same from known species. It is not, however, described as a new species since the anatomic organisation of the posterior part of the animal is unknown. And one specimen, collected on a muddy bottom at a depth of 80 m off Livingston Island, is described as a the new species Dorymenia parvidentata. This article report on the Solenogastres previously studied in the BENTART Collection.