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Parmaphorella melvilli
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Description
Parmaphorella melvilli (Thiele, 1912)
Fig. 2A
Tugalia antarctica Melvill & Standen, 1907: 98, fig. 1
Tugali melvilli Thiele, 1912: 257 (nom. nov. pro T. antarctica Melvill & Standen, 1907 non Strebel, 1907)
Parmaphorella melvilli — Powell, 1951: 87, fig. G3 (radula)
Parmophoridea melvilli — Dell, 1990: 77, fig. 122
Examined material. 3 sh. (MACN-In 40660).
Description. Shell length to 11.7 mm (up to 23 mm according to Melvill & Standen 1907); patelliform, low, moderately thick. Apex rolled, located close to posterior margin. Surface white; sculptured with numerous, low radial ribs and prominent growth lines, which produce small beads at their intersections. Aperture ovate, interior white, margin crenulated. Slit closed.
Notes
Published as part of Luca, Javier Di & Zelaya, Diego G., 2019, Gastropods from the Burdwood Bank (southwestern Atlantic): an overview of species diversity, pp. 41-78 in Zootaxa 4544 (1) on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/2618137
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Fissurellidae
- Genus
- Parmaphorella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Vetigastropoda
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Thiele
- Species
- melvilli
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parmaphorella melvilli (Thiele, 1912) sec. Luca & Zelaya, 2019
References
- Thiele, J. (1912) Die Antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. Deutsche Sudpolar Expedition 1901 - 1903, 13, Zoologie 5 (2), 183 ‾ 285, pls. 11 - 19.
- Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1907) The marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 46, 119 - 157, 1 pl.
- Strebel, H. (1907) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna der Magalhaen-Provinz 5. Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 25, 79 - 196, pls. 1 - 8.
- Powell, A. W. B. (1951) Antarctic and Subantarctic Mollusca: Pelecypoda and Gastropoda collected by the ships of the Discovery Committee during the years 1926 - 1937. Discovery Reports, 26, 49 - 196, pls. 5 - 10.
- Dell, R. K. (1990) Antarctic Mollusca with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 27, 1 - 311.