Babelomurex lischkeanus
Description
Babelomurex lischkeanus (Dunker, 1882)
Figs 84, 178
Rapana lischkeana Dunker, 1882: 43, pl. 1, figs 1, 2; pl. 13, figs 26, 27.
Synonyms:
Tolema peregrina Powell, 1947: 170-171, pl. 19, fig. 3.
Tolema australis Laseron, 1955: 72, pl. 1, figs 1, 2.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Rapana lischkeana: holotype ZMB (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985: pl. 27, fig. 8). — Tolema peregrina: holotype AIM AK71138 (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985: pl. 27, fig. 23). — Tolema australis: holotype AMS C103333 (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985: pl. 47, fig. 3).
TYPE LOCALITY. — R. lischkeana: Seto Inland Sea, Japan. — T. peregrina: “trawled on Atrina beds near the entrance to Hauraki Gulf [NE New Zealand], probably in about 20-25 fathoms [37-46 m]”. — T. australis: off Sydney, New South Wales, 201 m.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Loyalty Ridge. MUSORSTOM 6: stn 443-460 m, 1 dd.
DW 446, 20°54’S, 167°19’E, 360 m, 1 dd (dd juv); stn CP 464, Tonga. BORDAU 2: stn DW 1524, 21°17’S, 175°00’W, 351-354 21°02’S, 167°32’E, 430 m, 1 dd; stn CP 467, 21°05’S, 167°32’E, m, 1 dd; stn DW 1543, 21°16’S, 175°18’W, 427-436 m, 1 dd 575 m, 3 dd (Fig. 84). (Fig. 178); stn DW 1549, 20°38’S, 175°00’W, 500 m, 1 dd; stn Norfolk Ridge. NORFOLK 1: stn DW 1663, 23°40’S, 167°42’E, DW 1585, 18°33’S, 173°57’W, 578 m, 1 dd.
DISTRIBUTION. — Southern Atlantic Ocean, off Namibia (Kosuge 1986b). Indian Ocean: from Réunion to Indonesia (Kosuge 1986b). Pacific Ocean: from Boso Peninsula (Japan) southward to east China Sea, Philippines, Australia, on “coarse sand and gravel bottoms in 50-200 m deep” (Tsuchiya 2000), and New Zealand, “subtidal to 400 fms” [732 m] (Cernohorsky 1978). From Loyalty Ridge, Norfolk Ridge and Tonga, empty shells only in 354- 578 m.
REMARKS. — Protoconch of 2.8 conical whorls, 970 Μm high, 910 Μm wide at the base. Protoconch-I of about 1 whorl, sculptured with pustules over the entire surface. Protoconch-II of about 1.8 whorls, with 2 spiral keels, and sculptured with a series of subsutural threads and a series of similar threads over each keel; a diffuse granulation is present in the interspaces.
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/352C264A8E61FFE6D8B50B33DB3DBC37 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AIM , AMS , ZMB
- Family
- Muricidae
- Genus
- Babelomurex
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- AK71138 , C103333
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Dunker
- Species
- lischkeanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Babelomurex lischkeanus (Dunker, 1882) sec. Oliverio, 2008
References
- POWELL A. W. B. 1947. - On Tolema peregrina n. sp. and the East Australian warm classe des gasteropodes pectinibranches. Transactions of the Zoological water current. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 3: 170 - 172. Society of London 1: 259 - 260.
- KAY E. A. 1965. - Marine molluscs in the Cuming collection, British Museum KOSUGE S. 1986 b. - Descriptions of new species of the family Coralliophilidae (Natural History) described by William Harper Pease. Bulletin of the British in the collections of the Australian Museum, Sydney. Bulletin of the Institute Museum (Natural History), Zoology, Supplement 1: 1 - 96, pls 1 - 14. of Malacology of Tokyo 2 (4): 63 - 66.
- BARNARD K. H. 1959. - Contributions to the knowledge of South African CERNOHORSKY W. O. 1978. - Marine shells of the Pacific. 3. Pacific Publications, Mollusca. Part. 2: Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Rachiglossa. Annals of the Sydney, 352 pp.