Aforia multispiralis Dell 1990
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Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990
Figures 7 E–G
Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990: 231, figs. 413–416, 433, 435; Numanami et al., 1996: 213, pl. 3, figs. 2, 5; Wiese, 2001: 33, fig. 3; Aldea and Troncoso, 2010: 151, fig. 151; Engl, 2012: 180, figs. 3 a–c; Rauschert and Arntz, 2015: 47, pl. 40, figs. Danilacarina elenae Bozzetti, 1997: 42, pl.
Type material. Holotype, USNM 860145.
Type locality. Off South Shetland Is., 67º27’S, 57º58’W, 809–1,116 m collected by R/V “ELTANIN”, St. 426.
Material examined. CNP-Inv.1876, St. 8, CAV2014, 6258.36’S, 6051.47’W in 219–232 m depth, 1 specimen; MACN-In 35050, 2 specimens, 25 de Mayo Is., South Shetland Is.
Distribution. South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands, West Antarctic Peninsula and Amery Ice Shelf (Aldea and Troncoso, 2010).
Remarks. The description of this species was based on the presence of two sharp keels along the whole shell instead of only one and two in the last whorl from congeneric and sympatric A. magnifica. The shell of both Antarctic species is truly variable. The radula presented no perceptible differences between forms. The real status of A. multispiralis remains somewhat dubious. Wiese (2001) illustrated the holotype of Danilacarina elenae from Kerguelen Is. and corroborated the synonymy of A. multispiralis.
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- Scientific name authorship
- Dell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Family
- Cochlespiridae
- Genus
- Aforia
- Species
- multispiralis
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- species
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- Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990 sec. Pastorino & Sánchez, 2016
References
- Dell, R. K. (1990) Antarctic mollusca, with special reference to the fauna of the Ross Sea. Bulletin of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 27, 1 - 311.
- Numanami, H., Okutani, T., Iwami, T., Takeuchi, I., Igarashi, A., Tsuchiya, Y. & Fukuchi, M. (1996) A record of gastropods and bivalves collected from east Antarctica by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1992 - 94. Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Polar Biology, 9, 207 - 223.
- Wiese, V. (2001) Comments on a " new " Turrid species from Kerguelen. Schrifte zur Malakozoologie aus dem Haus der Natur - Cismar, 18, 33 - 34.
- Aldea, C. & Troncoso, J. S. (2010) Moluscos del Mar de Bellingshausen (Antartica). Troncoso, S. J., Aldea, C., Vigo, 250 pp.
- Engl, W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 365 pp.
- Rauschert, M. & Arntz, W. (2015) Antarctic macrobenthos. A field guide of the invertebrates living at the Antarctic seafloor. Druckerei Girzig + Gottschalk GmbH, Bremen, 143 pp.
- Bozzetti, L. (1997) Description of a new genus and a new species (Gastropoda: Turridae, Turriculinae) from the Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocean. World Shells, 23 (1), 42 - 44.