Nierstraszella lineata ( Nierstrasz, 1905 )

Sigwart, Julia D. & Sirenko, Boris I., 2012, Deep-sea chitons from sunken wood in the West Pacific (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Lepidopleurida): taxonomy, distribution, and seven new species, Zootaxa 3195, pp. 1-38 : 25

Nierstraszella lineata ( Nierstrasz, 1905)

Chresonymy and synonymy from Sigwart (2009b). Records reported before 2009 without illustration are all assumed to refer to N. lineata s.s.

Lepidopleurus lineatus Nierstrasz, 1905: 8 , figs 4, 48–51; 1906: 146, 157; Ferreira 1979: 163, figs 23–24; 1980: 59; Dell'Angelo & Palazzi 1989: 80; Higo et al. 1999: 23.

Leptochiton lineatus ; Kaas & Van Belle 1980: 74; 1985: 113, fig. 49; 1998: 110; Kaas 1982: 87; 1990: 176; Slieker 2000: 92, pl. 34, fig. 2.

Nierstraszella lineata ; Sirenko 1992 [n. gen.]: 84, figs 3–7, 8A–D, 9 [in part; including also N. andamanica ]; 1998: 1; 2001: 61, figs 196–197; 2004: 112; Saito 1997: 46, pl. 2 fig. 2; 2001: 9, pl. 4, fig. 18; 2004: 84, fig. 2B; 2005: 104; 2006: 210, 220; Schwabe 2005: 52, pl. 1, fig. 1; 2006a: 20; 2006b: 108; Sigwart et al. 2007: appendix 1; Schwabe et al. 2008; Sigwart 2008a: tables 1–2, fig. 2E–F; 2009b: 447–468; Sigwart 2009b: 447 –468, figs 1–3, table 3, appendix 1; Vinther, 2009: table 2; Sigwart et al. 2011: table 3, figs 1F, 2; Yearsley & Sigwart 2011: table 1.

Nierstrasziella [sic] lineata ; Lindner 1999: 28.

+ Lepidopleurus niasicus Thiele, 1906: 13 , pl. 29, figs 1–5; Sirenko 1992: 84; Kilias 1995: 166; Schwabe et al. 2008: 2, 10, fig. 1A [designation of lectotype, acknowledged junior synonym of L. lineatus ].

Leptochiton niasicus ; Kaas & Van Belle 1980: 89; 1998: 130.

+ Leptochiton diomedeae Berry, 1917: 1 , pl. 1, figs 1–3, pl. 2; Ferreira 1979: 163, figs 21, 22; 1980: 59; Kaas & Van Belle 1980: 39; 1985: 101–103, fig. 44, map 34; 1998: 62; Higo & Goto 1993b: 3; Ogasawara 2003: 277.

Lepidopleurus diomedae [sic]; Taki 1938: 412; Sirenko 1973: 59 [English version].

Lepidopleurus (Deshayesiella) diomedeae ; Taki & Taki 1929: 162; Taki 1961: 3; 1962: 32; 1964: 48.

Lepidopleurus (Deshaysiella) [sic] diomedeae ; Itoigawa et al. 1977: 57; Ogasawara 2003: 277.

Leptochiton diomedae [sic]; Higo et al. 1999: 23.

Nierstraszella diomedeae ; Sigwart et al. 2007: appendix 1.

Leptochiton diomedeae ; Slieker 2000: 96, pl. 36, fig. 1.

+ Lepidopleurus belknapioides Leloup, 1981b: 317 , text fig. 1, pl. 1, figs 1–3; Kaas & Van Belle 1985: 113; 1998: 29; Sirenko 1992: 84; Slieker 2000: 139.

Material examined. Lepidopleurus lineatus lectotype (ITZ Moll. 3.05.011) designated by Ferreira (1979: 163); Lepidopleurus belknapioides holotype ( MNHN 5862). 84 specimens in 18 lots from Vanuatu, 125 specimens in 29 lots from the Philippines, 263 specimens in 36 lots from the Solomon Islands.

Distribution. Widely distributed in the Western Pacific, in Japan, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Indonesia, Vanuatu (summarised in Kaas & Van Belle 1985; see also Sigwart 2009b); 121–1767 m. Material studied here represents the deepest records for the species, from the Philippines at 1750–1767 m (Panglao 2005 sta. CP2353) and 1764 m (Panglao 2005 sta. CP2356). Locally abundant species and common on sunken wood.