Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Author
Mclean, James H.
Author
Clark, Roger N.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-09-26
5351
2
151
201
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1
journal article
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Buccinum katharinae
n. sp.
Figures 22 J–K
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Type
locality:
Amutka Pass
, SE of
Seguam Island
,
Aleutian Is.
,
Alaska
(
52°22.5 N
,
171°20.26 W
) (
NMFS 23-2000
-
1-83
),
325 m
.
Type material:
Holotype
,
LACM 3595
,
29.2 mm
;
Paratype
,
Pt
1,
RNC 5061
,
34.8 mm
. N of
Carlisle Island
,
Islands
of four
Mountains
(
53°04.73 N
,
170°08.43 W
),
177 m
.
(
NMFS 148-2022
-
1-32
)
.
Description:
Shell relatively small (to
35 mm
, RNC 5061) whorls rounded, suture moderately impressed; shell brown with lamellar, brown periostracum; protoconch with 1.5 whorl, 4.5 teleconch whorls. Axial sculpture lacking, spiral sculpture of two strongly projecting spiral cords on spire; interspaces of equal width, deeply channeled, surfaces of cords and interspaces with microscopic, raised lirae; base with three additional cords of lesser strength, suture laid on uppermost of these. Lip of
holotype
thin, immature; lip;
paratype
specimen with a complete, but lip, which is scarcely if at all thickened. Operculum small, filling about 25 % of aperture.
Rachidian tooth rectangular, with four short, weak cusps; Lateral teeth tri-cuspid, Outer cusp very long, curved; widely spaced from central and inner cusps; central cusp very small, less than half as long and broad as inner cusp; inner cusp about half as long as outer one, slightly curved.
Remarks:
For many years this unique species was known only from the
holotype
, but during the review process a second specimen was recovered.
Buccinum katharinae
is similar to
Buccinum eugrammatum
Dall, 1907
, but differs in 1) the fewer spiral cords, two on spire, and five total compared with five on spire and eight total in
B. eugrammatum
, and 2) lack of periostracum in
B. eugrammatum
.
Etymology:
Named for Katharine Pearson Maslenikov, taxonomist, at the University of
Washington
, who collected the
holotype
.
Distribution:
Central Aleutian Islands, Amutka Pass (
171°20 W
), to the Islands of four Mountains (
170° W
), at depths of
177–
325 m
.
Habitat:
Volcanic sand and mud bottoms.