Rissoidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from northeast Atlantic seamounts
Author
Gofas, Serge
text
Journal of Natural History
2007
2007-06-04
41
13 - 16
779
885
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930701298085
journal article
10.1080/00222930701298085
1464-5262
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Schwartziella peregrina
n. sp.
(
Figure 59
)
Type material
Holotype
MNHN 9727
(sh., 6.28×
2.12 mm
) and
nine paratypes
MNHN 9785
(sh., 5.90×2.10 to 6.60×
2.40 mm
) from
Seamount 2
sta. DW152, in
MNHN
.
Type locality
Meteor seamount,
30
°
02.09N
,
28
°
22.19W
,
470 m
.
Material examined
Meteor—
Seamount 2
sta. DW136, 1 sh. (5.80×
1.84 mm
); DW143, 16 sh. (5.15×1.85 to
6.37×2.00 mm); DW152, the
type
material.
Etymology
From Latin
peregrinus
, a wanderer or pilgrim, alluding to the remote geographical origin.
Description
Shell very slender, solid, up to 6.6×
2.4 mm
. Protoconch of 1.5 quite convex whorls,
smooth. Teleoconch with ca 7.5 quite convex whorls; body whorl rounded. Surface with strong, opisthocline, slightly flexuous axial ribs (ca 14 on the penultimate whorl), equivalent in size to the interspaces; and a complex spiral microsculpture of longitudinal slots which are offset along the growth lines. Aperture piriform, channelled at both ends. Outer lip opisthocline, strongly thickened externally, inside smooth, with a sharp edge. Inner lip slightly thickened, appressed.
Figure 59.
Schwartziella peregrina
n. sp.
(A) Holotype (sh.) from Meteor seamount, DW152 (470 m), actual size 6.28 mm; (B) protoconch of a paratype, same locality; (C) microsculpture of teleoconch whorl. Scale bars: 100 Mm (B); 50 Mm (C).
Remarks
There are many species of
Schwartziella
in the
Cape Verde
Islands (see
Rolán and Luque 2000
) and a few on the mainland of West Africa (see
Gofas 1999
), but
S. peregrina
differs in being much more slender than any of them.