Pedicularia tibia Simone, 2005

Simone, Luiz Ricardo L. & Cunha, Carlo M., 2012, Taxonomic study on the molluscs collected in Marion-Dufresne expedition (MD 55) to SE Brazil: Xenophoridae, Cypraeoidea, mitriforms and Terebridae (Caenogastropoda), Zoosystema 34 (4), pp. 745-781 : 752

Pedicularia tibia Simone, 2005

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Pedicularia tibia Simone, 2005b: 8-11 , figs 13-30 [Canopus Bank, off Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, 02°14’25”S, 38°22’50”W, 260 m]. — Rosenberg 2009. — Braga- Henriques et al. 2010: 2, 4, 5.

Pedicularia bonfigliolii Cossignani, 2006: 12 , 13 (3 figs) [Canopus Bank, 120 miles off Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil]. — Rosenberg 2009 (in syn.).

TYPE MATERIAL ( EXAMINED). — Holotype: Brazil, Ceará, Canopus Bank, off Fortaleza , 02°14’25”S, 38°22’50”W, 240-260 m depth, MZSP 78193 (XI.2005, Coltro coll. & leg.).

Paratypes: MZSP 52934, 53678, 53920, see Simone (2005: 6).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Brazil, Espírito Santo, off Itaúnas, continental slope of Abrolhos, 18°59’S, 37°48’W, 607-620 m depth, MNHN, 1 shell ( Fig. 3 I-L) ( MD 55, stn DC 73, Bouchet, Leal & Métivier coll., 27. V.1987). TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, Ceará, Canopus Bank, off Fortaleza, 02°14’25”S, 38°22’50”W, 240-260 m depth.

MEASUREMENTS (in mm). — MNHN: 3.8 × 2.3.

REMARKS

The examined sample is the first outside the Canopus Bank, a bank located off Fortaleza, Ceará. This new occurrence expands the geographic distribution little more than 1000 km southwards. The weakly sculptured shell is one of the characters of this species ( Fig. 3J, K ), as well as the sinuous, high variable shell borders ( Fig. 3I, L ) which fit in the cnidarian colony in which the animal lives ( Simone 2005b; Braga-Henriques et al. 2010).

Family OVULIDAE Fleming, 1822

Figures

FIG. 3. — Cypraeoideans: A, Erosaria acicularis (Gmelin, 1791), MNHN (1), apertural view (L 23.1 mm); B, same, dorsal view; C, Luria cinerea (Gmelin, 1791), MNHN, stn DC73 (1), apertural view (L 17.0 mm); D, same, dorsal view; E, stn DC75 (1), young specimen, apertural view (L 7.4 mm); F, same, dorsal view; G; Lamellaria sp., MNHN (stn DC73), apertural view (L 3.7 mm); H, same, dorsal view; I, Pedicularia tibia Simone, 2005, MNHN (stn DC73), apertural view (L 3.8 mm); J, same, left view; K, same, right view; L, same, dorsal view; M, Pseudosimnia lacrima n. sp., holotype MNHN 25217, dorsal view (L 7.5 mm); N, same, right view; O, same, apertural view; P, Cleotrivia antillarum (Schilder, 1922), MNHN (stn DC73), apertural view (L 4.5 mm); Q, same, right view; R, same, dorsal view; S, same, MZSP 104031, apertural view (L 4.1 mm); T, same, dorsal view.