The Family Seguenziidae Verrill, 1884 in the Northeast Pacific, including a comment on excessive numbers of taxonomic data portals
Author
Geiger, Daniel L.
text
Zoosymposia
2019
2019-02-19
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journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.7
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Seguenzia
Jeffreys, 1876
(
Figure 2
)
Seguenzia
Jeffreys, 1876: 200
.
Type
species (M):
S
.
formosa
Jeffreys, 1876
. Northwest Atlantic.
Description.
Shell to
10 mm
, thin, fragile, umbilicate or anomphalous, external and internal surfaces with nacreous luster. Apertural lip bordering three labral sinuses often flaring in mature shells. Columella curved, ending abruptly. Sculpture of narrow spiral carinae, basal cords; fine spiral threads, sharp axial riblets curving parallel to labral sinuses.
Remarks.
Species occur throughout the world on the lower continental slope and abyssal plain.
Seguenzia occidentalis
Dall, 1908
(see
Keen 1971
) is known from the Panamic Province. There are two groups of
Seguenzia
, 1) specimens with globular shells and with less prominent spiral keels:
S. cervola
,
S. macleani
, and 2) biconical shells with more prominent spiral keels:
S. giovia
,
S. stephanica
.