The Vetigastropoda (Mollusca) of Walters Shoal, with descriptions of two new genera and thirty new species
Author
Herbert, David G.
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2024
2024-02-28
923
1
119
https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2445/10835
journal article
10.5852/ejt.2024.923.2445
2118-9773
10727741
AD68CEDD-2F2D-4010-BE7A-1B1AE9E4A0F3
Genus
Bichoristes
McLean, 1992
Type
species
Bichoristes wareni
McLean, 1992
(original designation), Recent,
Norfolk
Ridge.
Remarks
Bichoristes
is a monotypic genus and is the only choristellid in which the shell is planispiral rather than helically coiled. However, the jaw and radula closely resemble those of other choristellid genera (
McLean 1992
) and thus like them,
B. wareni
is assumed to live within spent elasmobranch egg cases and to feed on decomposing bacteria growing on the inner egg case wall.