Bathyal Mollusca from the cold-water coral biotope of Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulian margin, southern Italy)
Author
Negri, Mauro Pietro
Author
Corselli, Cesare
text
Zootaxa
2016
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4186.1.1
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Allogramma formosa
(Jeffreys, 1882)
Fig. 10 a–c
Lyonsia formosa
Jeffreys, 1882
[a] (p. 930, pl. 70, fig. 1).
Lyonsia
(
Allogramma
)
formosa formosa
Jeffreys, 1882
—
Nordsieck 1969
(p. 157, pl. 22, fig. 90.03).
Lyonsia formosa
Jeffreys, 1882
—
Poppe &
Goto
1993
(p. 137, pl. 24, fig. 11);
Repetto
et al.
2005
(p. 352, mid left fig.).
Allogramma formosa
(Jeffreys, 1882)
—
Salas 1996
(p. 71, figs. 101–103);
Oliver
et al
. 2016
(online resource).
Diagnostic characters
. Subrectangular shell (when complete); wide obliquely triangular resilial socket; two nodose posterior radial ridges plus some weaker ones on the mid-shell; wavy anterior wrinkles running in dorsoventral direction; sparse rows of minute pustules, raised into short spines over the posterodorsal area. Prodissoconch (badly preserved): shell type?ST-2D; length about 280 µm; outline?roundish; surface probably smooth; P-2 apparently very narrow, rim-like; transition to the nepioconch well marked.
Remarks
. A single umbonal fragment of an adult right valve was recovered.
Occurrence
. Box-corer sample BC72 (1 specimen). Length: not available.
Distribution and habitat
.
Allogramma formosa
is distributed from the northern Atlantic to the Caribbean basin, the
Azores
and the Mediterranean (including the Levantine basin), from the lower slope to abyssal depths (
Nordsieck 1969
;
Poppe &
Goto
1993
;
Galil 2004
;
Oliver
et al.
2016
).
Fossil record.
None recorded.