An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca)
Author
Herbert, David G.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4049
1
1
98
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1
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Acremodontina
aff.
carinata
(
Powell,
1940
)
—new record
(
Figure
9
J, K)
Conjectura carinata
Powell,
1940
:
223
, pl.
28
, fig.
8
.
Powell,
1979
:
74
, pl.
20
, fig.
22
.
B.A.
Marshall
,
1995
b
:
102
, figs
20–22, 29
,
30, 56–59
.
Type
loc.: between Spirits Bay and Three Kings Islands, northern
New Zealand
,
91 m
;
holotype
in Auckland Institute and Museum (
72052
).
Distribution.
Local material known only from off Mbashe River, E. Cape,
200–220 m
, sponge dominated substratum, living.
Notes.
This material probably represents an undescribed species, but one that is similar to
A. carinata
and other strongly carinate
Acremodontina
species (
Marshall
1995
b
). The highly glossy shell and flattened apex with somewhat sunken protoconch are typical of the genus. There is also a strong varix on the first quarter teleoconch whorl (
Fig.
9
K) and the
radula
exhibits the very unusual features typical of
Acremodontina
including short, scalelike central and lateral teeth, and slender, terminally branched marginal teeth (Herbert unpubl. obs.). This is the first record of the genus outside the Australasian region.