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Coralliophila mitraeforma Kosuge 1985

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Rome University, " La Sapienza ", Viale dell'Università 32, I- 00185 Rome (Italy) marco. oliverio @ uniroma 1. it

Description

Coralliophila mitraeforma Kosuge, 1985 (Fig. 5A, B)

Coralliophila mitraeforma Kosuge, 1985: 56, pl. 21, figs 1, 2.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype (IMT 85-21; not examined; figured by Higo et al. [2001: 66, G2401]).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Mactan, Cebu, Philippines.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — BENTHAUS, stn DW 1948, Banc Lotus, 23°48.7’S, 147°53.5’W, 120-280 m, 1 lv (Fig. 5A, B).

DISTRIBUTION. — Pacific Ocean, from off Danjo Islands, Western Kiūshū (Higo et al. 1999: 217; Tsuchiya 2000), to the Philippines and the New Caledonia area, alive in 245-400 m (Oliverio 2008b). Austral Islands, alive in 120- 280 m.

REMARKS

The protoconch, partly eroded, of the single specimen, is concordant in the general aspect with the known protoconchs of this species, indicating a planktotrophic larval development. C. mitraeforma is very similar to C. solutistoma Kuroda & Shikama, 1966, differenciation relying on its higher ratio total height/apertural height (h/a).

Notes

Published as part of Oliverio, Marco, 2009, Diversity of Coralliophilinae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Muricidae) at Austral Islands (South Pacific), pp. 759-789 in Zoosystema 31 (4) on page 770, DOI: 10.5252/z2009n4a2, http://zenodo.org/record/4520186

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IMT
Material sample ID
IMT 85-21
Scientific name authorship
Kosuge
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Neogastropoda
Family
Muricidae
Genus
Coralliophila
Species
mitraeforma
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Coralliophila mitraeforma Kosuge, 1985 sec. Oliverio, 2009

References

  • HIGO S., CALLOMON P. & GOTO Y., 2001. - Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda. Type Figures. Elle Scientific Publications, Osaka, Japan, 208 p.
  • HIGO S., CALLOMON P. & GOTO Y. 1999. - Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda. Elle Scientific Publications, Osaka, Japan, 749 p.
  • TSUCHIYA K. 2000. - Superfamily Muricoidea, in OKUTANI T. (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan. Tokai University Press, Tokyo: 365 - 422.
  • OLIVERIO M. 2008 b. - Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the south-west Pacific, in HEROS V., COWIE R., BOUCHET P. (eds), Tropical Deep Sea Benthos, volume 25. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle 196: 451 - 555.
  • SHIKAMA T. 1966. - On some new Latiaxis and Coralliophila in Japan. Venus 25: 21 - 26.