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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Suavotrochus lubricus
(
Dall, 1881
)
(
Fig. 9
H–L)
Synonymy see
Quinn (1979)
. Complement:
Margarita lubrica
Dall, 1881
: 44
.
Solariella
(
Suavotrochus
)
lubrica
:
Quinn, 1979
: 42
, figs 68–74.
Solariella lubrica
:
Springer & Bullis, 1956
: 25
;
Lopes & Cardoso, 1958
: 62;
Rios, 1975
: 21, pl. 4, fig. 46;
Rios, 1985
: 23, pl. 10,
fig. 96;
Rios, 1994
: 36, fig. 109;
Gracia
et al.
, 2004
: 50, fig. 17;
Miyaji, 2004
: 78;
Benkendorfer & Soares-Gomes, 2009
:
150;
Rios, 2009
: 56, text fig.;
Rosenberg
et al.
, 2009
: 623;
Barros, 2010
: 62, figs 22–28;
Miloslavich
et al.
, 2010
: table S6;
Welch, 2010
: table S1;
Daccaret & Bossio, 2011
: 54, fig. 91.
Suavotrochus lubricus
:
Bouchet, 2015
.
Type material.
Lectotype
:
USNM 95061
.
Type
locality.
Cuba
,
North
of
Havana
,
Blake
sta. 2,
23º14’N
,
82º25’W
,
1472 m
(
24/v/1893
)
.
Distribution.
From Florida Straits to southernmost
Brazil
,
73–1472 m
(
Rosenberg
et al.
2009
).
Quinn (1979)
, however, remarked that the species might actually inhabit only depths up to
500 m
, being carried post-mortem to greater depths.
Barros (2010)
gave a bathymetric range of up to
5633 m
of depth based on empty shells.
Habitat.
Muddy bottoms (
Barros
et al.
, 2008
)
Material examined.
Brazil:
Espírito Santo:
off São Mateus, continental slope of Abrolhos,
18°59’S
,
37°50’W
, MD55 sta. DC
75, 295 m
, MNHN, 100 sh (
27/v/1987
).
Rio de Janeiro:
East of Cabo de São Tomé,
21°31’S
,
40°08’W
, MD55 sta. CB96, 295–
300 m
, MNHN, 1 sh (
31/v/1987
); S of Cabo Frio,
23°41’S
,
42°06’W
, MD55 sta. CB104, 430–
450 m
, MNHN, 50 sh (
02/vi/1987
).
Additional non-MD55 material
:
Cuba
:
lectotype
.
Measurements.
5½–6 whorls, H=5.0–
5.5 mm
, D=4.0–
4.5 mm
(n=20).
Remarks.
This species is by far the most abundant trochoid found in the MD55 material. The present specimens compare very well with the
lectotype
, even though they show an overall less-pronounced sculpture; this is in line with the known degree of morphological variation of this species (
Quinn 1979
). The variety (subspecies)
Margarita lubrica iridae
was described by
Dall (1889)
as a nearly smooth form (
lectotype
USNM 95063,
paralectotype
USNM 887343), but was later considered a synonym of
S. lubricus
by
Quinn (1979)
, who observed several intermediate stages between these two forms.
Interestingly, some specimens from one locality (sta. CB96) have the teleoconch sculptured by regularly spaced well-marked prosocline ribs. Moreover,
S. lubricus
has some axial corrugations restricted to the periumbilical area (
Fig. 9 J
), but in these specimens the corrugations seem to be expanded, forming complete ribs (
Fig. 9 L
). To the best of our knowledge, this feature has never been reported for this species. In the present specimens, the axial sculpture is of variable strength and there are even completely smooth specimens.