Fustiaria stenoschiza (Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897)

Figs. 53–56

+ Dentalium (Fustiaria) stenoschizum Pilsbry and Sharp 1897: 128, pl. 19, figs. 10–15; Henderson 1920: 86, pl. 15, figs. 8, 9; Abbott 1974: 387, fig. 4529.

+ Dentalium stenoschizum: Dall and Simpson 1901: 457.

+ Fustiaria stenoschiza: Steiner and Kabat 2001: 445; 2004: 647.

Type material

Syntypes ANSP 71081, 1 dd, ANSP 320994, 1 dd.

Type locality

West Indies (by original designation).

Material examined

Syntype ANSP 71081 of Fustiaria stenoschiza; IBUFRJ 10579, sta C22f, 8 dd; IBUFRJ 10587, sta C62, 1 lv, 2 dd; IBUFRJ 14248, sta 42, 3 dd.

Distribution

USA: Florida (Henderson 1920; Abbott 1974); Caribbean Sea: West Indies (Pilsbry & Sharp 1897); Porto Rico; Barbados (Henderson 1920); Brazil: Espírito Santo (this study). Living 96 m (present paper), shells 80 to 110 m.

Remarks

This species was reported from Indonesia (Boissevain 1906) and Australia (Lamprell & Healy 1998). Scarabino (1995) consider specimens identified by Boissevain (1906) as D. stenoschizum to represent F. nipponica (Yokoyama, 1922) . Since the F. stenoschiza records from Australia in Lamprell and Healy (1998) were based on Boissevain (1906), their records must also be attributed to F. nipponica; the distribution of F. stenoschiza is, therefore, restrited to the western Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea.

Fustiaria stenoschiza differs from F. liodon by the long and regular slit (Figs. 54 and 56) and more rapidly tapering.