Leptoconchus Ruppell 1834
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
Leptoconchus sp.
[L. peronii (Lamarck, 1818) group]
(Fig. 11B)
Magilus peronii Lamarck, 1818: 374.
Leptoconchus striatus Rüppell, 1835: 259, pl. 35, figs 9, 10.
Leptoconchus schrenkii Lischke, 1871a: 40; 1871b: 45, pl. 4, figs 9, 10.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Magilus peronii: lectotype (MNHN 20694 [Massin 1990: 24]) and paralectotypes (MNHN 20685, 20686).
Leptoconchus striatus: Repository unknown.
Leptoconchus schrenkii: “ type most probably in St Petersburg Museum” (Cosel 1998: 29).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Magilus peronii: Mauritius Island. Leptoconchus striatus: Red Sea.
Leptoconchus schrenkii: Nagasaki, Japan.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — The type material of Magilus peroni and:
BENTHAUS, stn DW 1888, Marotiri Is., 27°51.4’S, 143°31.4’W, 120- 100 m, 1 dd (Fig. 11B).
DISTRIBUTION. — The species of this group are known from Red Sea and tropical Indo-West Pacific, 3-7 m in faviid corals (Massin 1990). New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands, shells in 2-55 m, alive (one juvenile) in 55-80 m (Oliverio 2008b). Austral Islands, a single empty shell in 120- 100 m, possibly drifted from shallower habitat.
REMARKS
According to Gittemberger (2006), a large number of previously undetected, mostly unnamed, cryptic species that are difficult to identify are included in this group, with a largely misguiding shell morphology. At present only good data of association with the coral host species and diagnostic molecular markers can help in identification. It is here stressed, that at present it would be very hard (if not impossible), to identify with certainty empty shells or even specimens collected alive but not properly fixed.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ruppell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Muricidae
- Genus
- Leptoconchus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptoconchus Ruppell, 1834 sec. Oliverio, 2009
References
- LAMARCK J. B. P. A. DE M. DE 1818 - 1822. - Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertebres, presentant les caracteres generaux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales especes qui s'y rapportent; precedee d'une introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l'animal, sa distinction du vegetal et des autres corps naturels; enfin, l'exposition des principes fondamentaux de la zoologie. Vol. 5, 612 p. [1818]; vol. 7, 711 p. [1822]. L'auteur, Paris.
- RUPPELL E. 1835. - Description d'un nouveau genre de mollusques de la classe des gasteropodes pectinibranches. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 1: 259 - 260.
- LISCHKE C. E. 1871 a. - Diagnosen neuer Meeres- Conchylien von Japan. Malakozoologische Blatter 18: 39 - 45.
- LISCHKE C. E. 1871 b. - Japanische Meeres-Conchylien. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken Japans, mit besonderer Rucksicht auf die geographische Verbreitung derselben. Vol. 2. Theodor Fischer, Cassel, 183 p., 14 pls.
- MASSIN C. 1990. - Biologie et ecologie de Leptoconchus peronii (Lamarck, 1818) (Gastropoda, Coralliophilidae) recolte en Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinee, avec une redescription de l'espece. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie 60: 23 - 33.
- COSEL R. VON 1998. - Mayor Lischke and the Japanese marine shells. A bio-bibliography of Carl Emil Lischke and a brief history of marine malacology in Japan with bibliography. The Yuriyagai, Journal of the Malacozoological Association of Yamaguchi 6 (1): 7 - 50.
- 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.