Calliostomatidae, Colloniidae, Margaritidae, and Solariellidae (Gastropoda: Trochoidea) collected by the Marion Dufresne (MD 55) expedition in southeastern Brazil, with description of a new species of Calliostoma
Author
Cavallari, Daniel C.
Author
Salvador, Rodrigo B.
Author
Dornellas, Ana P. S.
Author
Simone, Luiz R. L.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-24
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4609.3.1
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Calliostoma caribbechinatum
Landau, Van Dingenen & Ceulemans, 2017
(
Fig. 1
A–D)
Synonymy see
Leal (1991)
. Complement:
Calliostoma echinatum
Dall, 1881
: 47
;
Leal, 1991
: 44
, pl. 3, fig. A;
Benkendorfer & Soares-Gomes, 2009
: 147
;
Massemin
et al.
, 2009
: 84
, pl. p83;
Rios, 2009
: 51
, text fig.;
Rosenberg
et al.
, 2009
: 623
;
Dornellas, 2012
: 103
.
Calliostoma caribbechinatum
Landau, Van Dingenen & Ceulemans 2017
: 123
.
Type material.
Holotype
:
USNM 214270
.
Type
locality.
Cuba
, off
Havana
,
Blake
sta.
62, 146 m
(
Agassiz
&
Sigsbee
leg., 1877)
.
Previously known distribution.
From
Cuba
to southern
Brazil
, live specimens down to
146 m
(
Benkendorfer & Soares-Gomes, 2009
;
Rosenberg
et al.
, 2009
).
New occurrence.
Abrolhos Slope,
60–295 m
(shells only).
Habitat.
Coralline and muddy bottoms.
Material examined.
Brazil:
Espírito Santo:
off São Mateus, Abrolhos Slope,
18°59’S
,
37°50’W
, MD55 sta. DC
75, 295 m
, MNHN, 1 sh (
27/v/1987
); Jaseur Seamount,
20°26’S
,
36°17’W
, MD55 sta. DC30, 60 m, MNHN, 2 sh (
15/v/1987
),
20°27’S
,
35°54’W
, MD55 sta. DC34, 54 m, MNHN, 5 sh (
15/v/1987
); Dogaressa Seamount,
20°50’S
,
33°44’W
, MD55 sta. DC43, 63 m, MNHN, 3 sh (
17/v/1987
).
Rio de Janeiro:
off Cabo de São Tomé,
21°37’S
,
40°18’W
, MD55 sta. DC15, 37 m, MNHN, 1 sh (
10/v/1987
).
Additional non-MD55 material
:
Cuba
:
holotype
.
Measurements.
6½–7 whorls, H=
4.9–6.1 mm
, D=
4.5–5.5 mm
(n=12).
Remarks.
The name
Calliostoma caribbechinatum
was introduced by
Landau
et al.
(2017)
as a replacement for
C. echinatum
Dall, 1881
, a junior secondary homonym of
C. echinatum
(
Millet, 1865
)
, a fossil species from the Miocene of
France
. In his study about selected specimens from the MD55 expedition,
Leal (1991)
reported the occurrence of
C. caribbechinatum
(as
C. echinatum
Dall, 1881
) on the islands of Trindade and Martim Vaz as well as the seamounts Jaseur, Davis, and Dogaressa, but did not mention the Abrolhos Slope (sta. DC75). This location is newly reported herein and it is also the deepest occurrence of the species known so far, expanding the previous maximum depth record from
220 m
to
295 m
.
Even though the specimens examined here are exclusively empty shells, some are very well preserved, which at least means they were collected not too long after death and likely not far removed from their living area.