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
4186
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1
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4186.1.1
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1175-5326
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Panacca
? sp.
Fig.
9
m–o
Diagnostic characters
. Thin oval shell; posterior ventral gape; rounded posterior side; radial rows of minute, rounded to conical pustules. Prodissoconch: shell type ST-2C; length about 170 µm (P-1 about 150 µm); roundish outline; convex profile; P-1 surface weakly rough, with irregular commarginal wrinkles abapically; P-1/P-2 boundary step-like, with a weak sinuation on the ventral margin; P-2 narrow and flattened; transition to the nepioconch poorly defined.
Remarks
. This unidentified taxon differs from
P. loveni
in that it has a smaller and more oval shell lacking the median radial ribs.
Occurrence
. Box-corer samples BC71 (4 specimens), BC72 (2). Maximum length:
11 mm
.
Fossil record.
None recorded.