Revision of the deep-sea Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda) from off Northeast Brazil
Author
Souza, Leonardo Santos De
Setor de Malacologia, Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Author
Pimenta, Alexandre Dias
Setor de Malacologia, Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional-Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. & alexpim @ mn. ufrj. br; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7001 - 5820
alexpim@mn.ufrj.br
Author
Barros, José Carlos Nascimento De
Laboratorio de Malacologia, Departamento de Pesca e Aqüicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil. mundovan 6 @ yahoo. de; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8476 - 6171
mundovan6@yahoo.de
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-16
4927
4
451
504
journal article
8069
10.11646/zootaxa.4927.4.1
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Genus
Ophieulima
Warén & Sibuet, 1981
Type
species.
Stilifer minima
Dall, 1927
, by original designation,
Recent
;
North Atlantic
.
Diagnosis.
Shell small, few whorls, colorless, globose; protoconch brownish, cylindrical; teleoconch inflated, strongly convex whorls, surface usually sculptured by microscopic spiral lines; aperture broad, almost half the size of total length, outer lip prosocline (adapted from
Warén & Sibuet 1981
).
Remarks.
Ophieulima
Warén & Sibuet, 1981
is a genus that parasitizes ophiuroids and comprises three species (MolluscaBase Eds. 2020c):
O. minima
(
Dall, 1927
)
, from the North Atlantic and Mediterranean (
Dall 1927
;
Bouchet & Warén 1986
;
Romani
et al.
2014
;
Hoffman & Freiwald 2020
);
O. fuscoapicata
Warén, 1981
, from
New Zealand
(
Warén 1981a
); and
O. antecessor
Lozouet, 1999
, a fossil species from the Miocene of
France
(
Lozouet 1999
). The new record of
O. minima
herein is the first record of the genus in the southwestern Atlantic.