The Family Seguenziidae Verrill, 1884 in the Northeast Pacific, including a comment on excessive numbers of taxonomic data portals
Author
Geiger, Daniel L.
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Zoosymposia
2019
2019-02-19
13
61
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journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.7
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Seguenzia cervola
Dall, 1919
(
Figure 2
A–B)
Seguenzia cervola
Dall, 1919: 344
.
Holotype
USNM 209229
.
Off North Coronado Island
,
Baja California
, 618–692 fms [=
1130–1265 m
].
Seguenzia megaloconcha
Rokop, 1972: 15
, fig. 1.
Holotype
USNM 701260
.
SW of Farallon Islands
,
W of Pioneer Seamount
,
3592–3798 m
.
New
synonym.
Description.
Shell to
10 mm
, globular inflated, suture little impressed; spiral cords decreasing in strength from shoulder to base, one below suture, one on mid-shoulder, more than one dozen from periphery to base; crossed by finest axial lines; umbilicus open, bordered by more or less distinct periumbilical cord, partially covered by umbilical chink, funiculus present; columellar wall thickened, abruptly ending.
Distribution.
Oregon
(46˚N) to Coronado Islands, Baja Califonia (32˚N).
1100–3800 m
.
Remarks.
Seguenzia megaloconcha
is a small specimen of
S. cervola
as shown by the identical sculpture on the earlier portion of the teleoconch and the shared umbilical characters.