Sukashitrochus morleti Crosse 1880
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Description
Sukashitrochus morleti (Crosse, 1880)
(Figures 4–5)
1880 Schismope morleti nov. spec.—Crosse: p. 144–146, pl. 4, fig. 3.
1982 Sinezona carinata (A. Adams, 1862) —Ladd: p. 20, pl. 1, figs 3–4.
2012 Sukashitrochus morleti (Crosse, 1880) —Geiger: p. 632–645, figs 496–503, color plate 4D–E.
Material. Anda2 (1) RGM 961.708, Anda4 (1) RGM 961.709.
Characterization. Shell broad with flattened apex; H 1.03 mm, W 1.29 mm; P with axial sculpture, DN 0.06–0.07 mm; T1 with distinct axial cords; T2 with weaker axial cords, prominent spiral keels and weak spiral cords.
Distribution. Indo-Malayan Archipelago to Central Pacific, 0–60 m depth, live, in muddy sand (Geiger 2012). Also from the Pleistocene of Vanuatu (Ladd 1982).
Remarks. The studied material conforms to the description by Geiger (2012), although specimen RGM 961.709 only has 14 axial cords on T1 instead of approximately 18.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scissurellidae
- Genus
- Sukashitrochus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepetellida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Crosse
- Species
- morleti
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sukashitrochus morleti Crosse, 1880 sec. Helwerda & Wesselingh, 2014
References
- Crosse, H. (1880) Description de mollusques inedits, provenant de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et de la Nouvelle-Bretagne. Journal de Conchyliologie, 28, 142 - 149.
- Adams, A. (1862) On some new species of Scissurellidae from the Seas of China and Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3, 10, 346 - 348.
- Ladd, H. S. (1982) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Eulimidae and Volutidae through Terebridae). Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1171, 1 - 100.