Leptochiton laurae Schwabe & Sellanes 2010
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Description
Leptochiton laurae Schwabe & Sellanes, 2010
(Figures 1–3)
Leptochiton cf. sykesi Sirenko & Gallardo 2005: 89 [non Leptochiton sykesi (Sowerby III, 1903)]
Leptochiton laurae Schwabe & Sellanes 2010: 37–41, figs. 1J, 4, 5A–D; Sirenko 2015: 161, figs. 8A–C, 9–16; Sirenko & Sellanes 2016: 264, figs. 1E, 9–11.
Leptochiton cf. laurae; Sirenko 2020: 417, figs. 18–21, 44G, H.
Type material. Holotype (ZSM Mol 20070760).
Type locality. Chile, off Concepcion, 36º22.19’S, 73º43.36’W, 846 m.
Material examined. Southern Ocean, Heard Island, 52.5969°S, 71.9952°E, Locality HIMI-Aurora Bank, 310 m, cruise SC 26, Mol 37, benthic sled, 6 spms, BL 10.0– 14.5 mm, (TMAG, E 26178), 01.05.2003.
Distribution. Off Chile, from 34.5°S to the Magellan Strait and Beagle Channel, South Orkney, South Shetland, Kerguelen, Heard and Crozet Islands, south western Australia and New Zealand, 88–1210 m (Sirenko 2020).
Remarks. The studied specimen (TMAG E 26178) has BL 11.0 mm and 10 gills per side arranged from valve VII to anus, and a 4.3 mm long radula with 57 transverse rows of mature teeth. Like specimens of this species living off the South Shetland Islands (Sirenko 2015), the Australian specimens I studied (Sirenko 2020) have smooth dorsal scales, which in my opinion is intraspecific variability. Leptochiton laurae belongs to the group of L. sykesi (Sirenko 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BL , TMAG , ZSM
- Event date
- 2003-01-05
- Family
- Leptochitonidae
- Genus
- Leptochiton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- E 26178
- Order
- Lepidopleurida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Schwabe & Sellanes
- Species
- laurae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 2003-01-05
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptochiton laurae Schwabe, 2010 sec. Sirenko, 2023
References
- Schwabe, E. & Sellanes, J. (2010) Revision of Chilean bathyal chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) associated with cold-seeps, including description of a new species of Leptochiton (Leptochitonidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 10 (1), 31 - 55. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 13127 - 009 - 0002 - 6
- Sirenko, B. I. & Gallardo, C. (2005) Chitons (Polyplacophora) of Chile. The IVth International Congress of the European Malacological Societies, Oct. 10 - 14 2005 in Naples (Italy). Abstracts. Notiziario S. I. M., Supplemento al Bollettino Malacologico, 23 (5 - 8), 89.
- Sowerby, G. B. III (1903) Mollusca of South Africa. Marine Investigations in South Africa, 2 (3), 213 - 232.
- Sirenko, B. I. (2015) Shallow and deep-sea chitons of the genus Leptochiton Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurida) from Peruvian and Chilean waters. Zootaxa, 4033 (2), 151 - 202. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4033.2.1
- Sirenko, B. I. & Sellanes, J. (2016) Update of the genus Leptochiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) in Chilean deep waters: three new reports and description of two new species. Zootaxa, 4173 (3), 259 - 279. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4173.3.5
- Sirenko, B. I. (2020) New Zealand and Australian species of the genus Leptochiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Zootaxa, 4851 (3), 401 - 449. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4851.3.1