Axinulus alleni Carrozza 1981
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Description
Axinulus alleni (Carrozza, 1981)
Fig. 7 a–c
Thyasira alleni Carrozza, 1981 (p. 224, pl. 1, figs. 1–3).
Thyasira (Axinulus) alleni Carrozza, 1981 — Payne & Allen 1991 (p. 531, figs. 78–81). Thyasira alleni Carrozza, 1981 — Bonfitto et al. 1994 (p. 149, fig. 37); Repetto et al. 2005 (p. 308, mid left fig.).
Diagnostic characters. Obliquely subquadrangular shell; edentulous hinge; weak postero-dorsal radial depression; outer surface bearing growth lines only. Prodissoconch: shell type ST-2D; length about 120 µm; roundish D-shaped outline; convex profile; surface with irregular low wrinkles; rim-like shell lip barely separated from P-1; transition to the nepioconch well marked.
Occurrence. Box-corer sample BC72 (1 specimen). Height: 2.5 mm.
Distribution and habitat. Axinulus alleni ranges from NE Atlantic to West Africa (Morocco, Angola and Cape basins) and to the Mediterranean, as far east as the North Aegean Sea, dwelling on medium-fine, organic muddy sand from about 150 to over 1500 m depth (Carrozza 1981; Payne & Allen 1991; Salas 1996; Zenetos et al. 2005).
Fossil record. Upper Pleistocene of Sardinia (Bonfitto et al. 1994).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Thyasiridae
- Genus
- Axinulus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lucinoida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Carrozza
- Species
- alleni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Axinulus alleni Carrozza, 1981 sec. Negri & Corselli, 2016
References
- Carrozza, F. (1981) Thyasira alleni n. sp. Bollettino Malacologico, 17 (9 - 10), 223 - 228.
- Payne, C. M. & Allen, J. A. (1991) The morphology of deep-sea Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the Atlantic Ocean. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, 334, 481 - 562. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1098 / rstb. 1991.0128
- Bonfitto, A., Oliverio, M., Sabelli, B. & Taviani, M. (1994) A Quaternary deep-sea marine molluscan assemblage from East Sardinia (Western Thyrrenian Sea). Bollettino Malacologico, 30 (5 - 9), 141 - 157.
- Repetto, G., Orlando, F. & Arduino, G. (2005) Conchiglie del Mediterraneo: 1770 specie illustrate con distribuzione e frequenza. Amici del Museo " Federico Eusebio ", Alba, 392 pp.
- Salas, C. (1996) Marine Bivalves from off the southern Iberian Peninsula collected by the Balgim and Fauna 1 expeditions. Haliotis, 25, 33 - 100.
- Zenetos, A., Vardala-Theodorou, E. & Alexandrakis, C. (2005) Update of the marine Bivalvia Mollusca checklist in Greek waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85, 4798 / 1 - 6. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0025315405012014