Babelomurex fusiformis Indo-West
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
Babelomurex fusiformis (Martens, 1902) (Figs 9C, D; 12D)
Rapana (Latiaxis) fusiformis Martens, 1902: 96, 97, pl. 3, fig. 1.
Latiaxis helenae Azuma, 1973: 231, fig. 1.
Latiaxis nakamigawai io Kilburn, 1974: 201, fig. 12a.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Rapana (Latiaxis) fusiformis: holotype (ZMB 61037; figured by Kosuge & Suzuki [1985: pl. 28, fig. 7]).
Latiaxis helenae: holotype (Azuma coll. no. 15944; not examined).
Latiaxis nakamigawai io: holotype (NM A989; figured by Kosuge & Suzuki [1985: pl. 28, fig. 6]).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Rapana (Latiaxis) fusiformis: “Ost-Afrika”, “Valdivia” [Expedition], “Stat. [no.] 254, 974 m ”, south of Brawa (0°29’S, 42°47’E), Somalia.
Latiaxis helenae: 50 miles off Inhaca Islands, S. Mozambique Channel, 494 m [270 fms].
Latiaxis nakamigawai io: Off Durban, South Africa, in 150 fathoms [274.3 m].
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — The type material of Rapana (Latiaxis) fusiformis and Latiaxis. nakamigawai io and: BENTHAUS, stn DW 1999, North coast of Rurutu, 22°25.1’S, 151°22.1’W, 270-500 m, 1 dd (Figs 9C, D; 12D).
DISTRIBUTION. — Indian Ocean: Natal, South Africa (Kosuge 1992), Somalia (Kosuge 1993). Pacific Ocean: Coral Sea, Norfolk Ridge, Loyalty Ridge, Fiji, Tonga and New Hebrides Arc, empty shells in 227-700 m, alive in 433-532 m (Oliverio 2008b). Austral Islands empty shells in 270- 500 m.
REMARKS
I am not totally convinced that the single shell here recorded in not a specimen of B. mediopacificus with a weaker sculpture. Also the use of the name fusiformis for Pacific populations of this group may prove to be erroneous. Following Oliverio (2008b), Martens’ name is here maintained pending a revision of the B. japonicus species group, which must include analysis of protoconchs over a large geographic range and possibly also the use of molecular markers, in a phylogeographic framework.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NM , ZMB
- Material sample ID
- A989
- Scientific name authorship
- Indo-West
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Muricidae
- Genus
- Babelomurex
- Species
- fusiformis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Babelomurex fusiformis (Martens, 1902) sec. Oliverio, 2009
References
- MARTENS E. VON 1902. - Die beschalten Gastropoden der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, 1898 - 1899. a. Systematisch-geographischer Teil. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition Valdivia. Carl Chun, Berlin, vii + 146 p., pls i-v.
- AZUMA M. 1973. - Description of a new species of the genus Latiaxis Swainson, 1840 from the South Mozambique Channel, Indian Ocean (Gastropoda: Coralliophilidae). The Veliger 15: 231.
- KILBURN R. N. 1974. - Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca 3: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia, with descriptions of new taxa of Naticidae, Fasciolariidae, Magilidae, Volutomitridae and Turridae. Annals of the Natal Museum 22: 187 - 220.
- KOSUGE S. & SUZUKI M. 1985. - Illustrated catalogue of Latiaxis and its related groups. Family Coralliophilidae. Institute of Malacology of Tokyo, Special Publications 1: 1 - 83.
- KOSUGE S. 1992. - Description of a new species of the family Coralliophilidae from South Africa (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology of Tokyo 2 (10): 157 - 158.
- KOSUGE S. 1993. - Notes on the coralliophilid species from Somalia, East Africa (Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology of Tokyo 3 (1): 9.
- 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.