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Dondersia Hubrecht 1888

  • 1. Department of Zoology, Genetics and Physycal Antrhopology, University of Santiago de Compostela. Rúa Lope Gómez de Marzoa, s / n. Campus Vida. 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain. & Department of Biological Sciences and Alabama Museum of Natural History, University of Alabama. 300 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA. & kmkocot @ ua. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8673 - 2688
  • 2. Department of Biological Sciences and Alabama Museum of Natural History, University of Alabama. 300 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA. & kmkocot @ ua. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8673 - 2688

Description

Genus Dondersia Hubrecht, 1888

Type species. Dondersia festiva Hubrecht, 1888, Mediterranean Sea 60 m. Other species: D. annulata Nierstrasz, 1902, Indian Ocean (Indonesia) 38 m; D. cnidevorans Salvini-Plawen, 1978, Antarctic 659–717 m; D. ? laminata Salvini-Plawen, 1978, Antarctic 311‾ 426 m; D. ? stylastericola Salvini-Plawen, 1978, Antarctic 300 m; D. namibiensis Scheltema, Schander & Kocot, 2012, South East Atlantic 619 m. D. incali (Scheltema, 1999), North East Atlantic 2091 m. D. todtae Klink, Bergmeier, Neusser & Ĵrger, 2015, East Atlantic, Azores Islands, 60 m.

Diagnosis. Elongate body without keel. Anterior end tapered to beaklike point, posterior end with a fingerlike projection and with a posterior lobe (in mature specimens). Leaf-shaped scales most abundant type of sclerites with oar-shaped (= pallet-shaped) or laminar scales scattered between them. With or without common atrio-buccal cavity. Monoserial radula; teeth with four denticles; two central denticles fused and curved distally; two lateral, outswung, curved denticles arising from rounded, serrated base. With or without dorsoterminal sensory organ. With or without copulatory stylets. Without respiratory folds. With seminal vesicles.

Notes

Published as part of Cobo, M. Carmen & Kocot, Kevin M., 2021, On the diversity of abyssal Dondersiidae (Mollusca: Aplacophora) with the description of a new genus, six new species, and a review of the family, pp. 63-97 in Zootaxa 4933 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4547986

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Dondersiidae
Genus
Dondersia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Pholidoskepia
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Hubrecht
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Dondersia Hubrecht, 1888 sec. Cobo & Kocot, 2021

References

  • Hubrecht, A. W. (1888) Dondersia festiva gen. et spec. nov. In: Feestbundel aan Franciscus Cornelis Donders op den 27 sten. Mei 1888, aangeboden door het Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde. F. van Rossen, Amsterdam, pp. 324 - 339.
  • Nierstrasz, H. (1902) The Solenogastres of the Siboga-Expedition. Siboga-Expeditie, 47, 1 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10915
  • Salvini-Plawen, L. (1978) Antarktische und Subantarktische Solenogastres - Eine monographie: 1898 - 1974. Zoologica, 128, 1 - 315.
  • Scheltema, A. H., Schander, C. & Kocot, K. M. (2012) Hard and soft anatomy in two genera of Dondersiidae (Mollusca, Aplacophora, Solenogastres). Biological Bulletin, 222 (3), 233 - 269. https: // doi. org / 10.1086 / BBLv 222 n 3 p 233
  • Scheltema, A. H. (1999) New eastern Atlantic neomenioid aplacophoran molluscs (Neomeniamorpha, Aplacophora). Ophelia, 5, 1 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00785326.1999.10409397