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Helluoherpia Handl & Buchinger 1996

  • 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 Helluoherpia Handl & Büchinger, 1996

Type species. Helluoherpia aegiri Handl & Büchinger, 1996, Norway 185–250 m depth.

Diagnosis. With leaf-shaped scales and solid acicular sclerites. Monoserial radula with three denticles. With common atrio-buccal cavity. Ventrolateral foregut glands as two long simple ducts with inner musculature and extraepithelial gland cells (Type A) opening in the anterior region of the ducts; Helluoherpia - type. Without dorsoterminal sensory organ. Without respiratory folds. Unpaired secondary genital opening. Without copulatory stylets.

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 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4547986

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Handl & Buchinger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Pholidoskepia
Family
Dondersiidae
Genus
Helluoherpia
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Helluoherpia Handl, 1996 sec. Cobo & Kocot, 2021

References

  • Buchinger, T. & Handl, C. (1996) Squamatoherpia tricuspidata gen. n. et sp. n. aus der Nordsee (Mollusca: Solenogastres: Dondersiidae). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 98 B, 57 - 63.