Ferreiraella soyomaruae
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Description
Ferreiraella soyomaruae (Wu & Okutani, 1984)
(Figs 1–3, 37B)
Lepidоpleurus sоyоmaruae Wu & Okutаni 1984: 5, pl. 2, figs 5–13, pl. 3, figs 1–8; Kааs & Vаn Вelle 1987: 7, fig. 1, mаp 9. Ferreiraella sоyоmaruae; Sirenko 1988: 1785.
Type material. Holotype (NMNS No. 60018) and paratype (UCM No. 31839).
Type locality. Near Torishima Island, Izu Islands, Japan, 30°46.5’N, 141°24.2’E, 3100 m.
Material examined. Taiwan, Bashi Channel N/O Fishery Researcher 1, “ TAIWAN 2000”, stn CP38, 21°32.1’N, 120°48.1’E, 1314–1317 m, 1 spm, BL 21.0 mm, 01.08.2000; east coast of Taiwan, N/O Fishery Researcher 1,” TAIWAN 2000”, stn CP53, 24°15.7’N, 122°11.6’E, 2620 m, 1 spm, BL 12.0 mm, 0 3.08.2000.
Distribution. Near south of Japan and near Taiwan, 1317–3100 m.
Remarks. Hiroshi Saito (NMNS) (pers. comm.) compared Taiwanese specimens with the holotype of F. soyomaruae and informed me that they are very similar. The stomach and gut of the specimen from stn CP38 contain fine particles of plant remains.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Leptochitonidae
- Genus
- Ferreiraella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidopleurida
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Wu & Okutani
- Species
- soyomaruae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ferreiraella soyomaruae (Wu, 1984) sec. Sirenko, 2018
References
- Wu, S. - K. & Okutani, T. (1984) The Deepsea Chitons (Мollusca: Polyplacophora) Collected by the R / V Soyo-Мaru from Japan. I. Lepidopleuridae. Venus, 43 (1), 1 - 31.
- Sirenko, V. I. (1988) A new genus of deep sea chitons Ferreiraella gen. n. (Lepidopleurida, Leptochitonidae) with a description of a new ultra-abyssal species. Zoologiсal Journal, 67 (12), 1776 - 1786.