A summary of reports of abyssal and hadal Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora (Mollusca) *
Author
Schwabe, Enrico
text
Zootaxa
2008
1866
205
222
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.183815
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183815
Neopilina bruuni
Menzies, 1968
Neopilina (Neopilina) bruuni
Menzies 1968
: 2
, figs 1c, 4A–E, 5.
Although the
holotype
was originally described from the Anton Bruun Cruise 11, Station 197 (from the southeastern Pacific, Milne Edwards Deep of the PeruChile Trench:
11°30'S
,
79°25'W
,
6146–6354 m
), a few pages later (p. 8) the author listed the species being from Station 179: Milne Edwards Deep of the PeruChile Trench, Southeast Pacific (
08°54'S
,
80°41'W
). It is most likely that this latter station is correct and the original “197” numbers were mixed up, as other monoplacophorans were reported from Station 197 (
Vema ewingi
(
Clarke & Menzies, 1959;
Neopilina
sp.
), and no other monoplacophoran was listed under this station (which indicates that the species was not mixed). It seems necessary to restrict the
type
locality to Station 179. The
holotype
was thus found at a depth of
4823–4925 m
as cited without comments in recent works (e.g.,
Warén & Hain 1992
,
Counts 2006
,
Haszprunar 2008
).