Recent Brachiopoda from the Norfolk Ridge, New Caledonia, with description of four new species
Author
Bitner, Maria Aleksandra
text
Zootaxa
2009
2235
1
39
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.190398
5781f612-65d4-4817-8aa7-5091a042a326
1175-5326
190398
Campages mariae
(Adams, 1860)
(
Fig. 11
)
This is a long-looped brachiopod, characterized externally by very prominent growth lines (
Cooper 1970;
Fig. 11
A–C, F
). In the studied material it was found on six seamounts and the slope of the Isle of Pines (
Tables 1
, 2), with a bathymetric range of
237–852 m
(
Fig. 14
). This is the first record of the genus
Campages
from the
Norfolk
Ridge. It has not been found in the vicinity of
New Caledonia
, and New Caledonian specimens ascribed to its congener
Campages furcifera
Hedley, 1905
by d’Hondt (1987) belonged to
Falax neocaledonensis
based on an examination of internal morphology (see Bitner 2008: 437).
Campages mariae
was originally described from off
Japan
and is also known from
China
and Kei
Island
(
Hatai 1940
;
Richardson
et al
. 1989
;
Logan 2007
). The new finding extends its biogeographical range by about
3000 km
to the south.