Veleropilina veleronis Menzies & Layton 1962
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Veleropilina veleronis (Menzies & Layton, 1962)
Neopilina (Vema) sp. Menzies & Robinson 1961: 338, fig. 1.
Neopilina (Neopilina) veleronis Menzies & Layton 1962: 402, pl. 7, figs A–F, pl. 8, fig. G, pls 9, 10.
The 14 specimens known from the original description are all from the type locality: Mexico, Baja California, off Cedros Island, slope of the Cedros Trench, 30 miles off Natividad Island light (27°52'25'' 27°51'30''N, 115°44'30'' 115°45'15''W) and were collected at a depth between 2730–2769 m.
Apart from the shallow water species Micropilina arntzi Warén & Hain, 1992 (17), and the abyssal species Ve ma e wi ng i (Clarke & Menzies, 1959) (11) and Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957 (10), this species was most numerous at a single station (14).
Genus Ve ma Clarke & Menzies, 1959
Type species: Neopilina (Vema) ewingi Clarke & Menzies, 1959, by original designation.
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Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico, 2008, A summary of reports of abyssal and hadal Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora (Mollusca) *, pp. 205-222 in Zootaxa 1866 on page 209, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183815Files
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.183815 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Neopilinidae
- Genus
- Veleropilina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tryblidiida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Menzies & Layton
- Species
- veleronis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Veleropilina veleronis Menzies, 1962 sec. Schwabe, 2008
References
- Menzies, R. J. & Layton, W. (1962) A new species of Monoplacophoran Mollusc, Neopilina (Neopilina) veleronis from the slope of the Cedros Trench, Mexico. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5 (13), 401 - 406, pls 7 - 10.
- Menzies, R. J. & Robinson, D. J. (1961) Recovery of the Living Fossil Mollusk, Neopilina, from the slope of the Cedros Trench, Mexico. Science, 134, 338 - 339.
- Waren, A. & Hain, S. (1992) Laevipilina antarctica and Micropilina arntzi, two new monoplacophorans from the Antarctic. The Veliger, 35 (3), 165 - 176.
- Clarke, A. H. & Menzies, R. J. (1959) Neopilina (Vema) ewingi, a second living species of the Paleozoic class Monoplacophora. Science, 129, 1026 - 1027.
- Lemche, H. (1957) A new living deep-sea mollusc of the Cambro-Devonian class Monoplacophora. Nature, 179, 413 - 416.