Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas
Author
Li, Bao Quan
Author
Kilburn, Richard N.
Author
Li, Xin Zheng
text
Journal of Natural History
2010
2010-02-23
44
11 - 12
699
740
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930903470086
journal article
10.1080/00222930903470086
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Ptychobela minimarus
(
Kosuge, 1993
)
(
Figure 3H
)
Inquisitor minimarus
Kosuge, 1993
, p 11
, 12, pl. 5, figs 1, 2, text fig. 1 (protoconch);
Wells 1994
: p 91
, pl. 4, figs 7, 8.
Material examined
One specimen, Xincun,
Hainan
Island.
Measurements
See
Table 1
.
Distribution
Hainan Islands,
Australia
. Not previously recorded from the
China
Seas.
Remarks
The specimen agrees well with photographs (Kilburn manuscript) of the
holotype
. Although only the radula will confirm its generic position, its shell characters appear closer to several
Ptychobela
spp
than to
Inquisitor
.
Wells (1994)
noted that the species was “known only from
154 to 200 m
depth N. of Port Hedland,
Western Australia
”. The present specimen was definitely collected in shallower water.