The unknown bathyal of the Canaries: new species and new records of deep-sea Mollusca
Author
Ortega, José Rafael
Author
Gofas, Serge
text
Zoosystema
2019
2019-11-28
41
26
513
551
journal article
23381
10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a26
cef5076b-424b-4cdc-8d13-6e472d861e09
1638-9387
3726028
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CF16A992-0401-44C8-BEEE-842CE7F1D27E
Bathysciadium costulatum
(Locard, 1898)
(
Fig. 2A, B
)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 31 sh., DW130.
REMARK
New record for the Canaries, this species was reported from Galicia Bank by Hoffmann
et al.
(2018), under the name
Lepetella ionica
F. Nordsieck, 1973
.
Warén (1997)
figured a
syntype
on which the radial lines formed by the periostracum are still visible, and reported this species to live on squid beaks deposited on the sea bottom.