Paradmete crymochara ( Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885 )

Luca, Javier Di & Zelaya, Diego G., 2019, Gastropods from the Burdwood Bank (southwestern Atlantic): an overview of species diversity, Zootaxa 4544 (1), pp. 41-78 : 58-59

Paradmete crymochara ( Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885)

Fig. 4H

Mitra crymochara Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885: 102 ; Rochebrune & Mabille, 1889: 49, pl. 3, figs. 1a, b

Paradmete crymochara — Powell, 1951: 166

Volutomitra (Paradmete) crymochara — Cernohorsky, 1970: 104, pl. 14, fig. 1

Examined material. 2 an. and 1 sh. (MACN-In 40691); 1 syntype (MNHN-IM-2000-30191).

Description. Shell height to 20 mm (up to 22 mm according to Cernohorsky 1970); biconical-fusiform, solid. Protoconch large, smooth, of 2.25 slightly convex whorls. Teleoconch of up to 4.25 whorls, slightly convex in

outline; last whorl comprising about 75% of total shell height. Suture deep, impressed. Surface white; sculptured with weak spiral threads, more evident at the base and the suture; and well marked growth lines. Periostracum yellowish, with white spiral bands. Aperture elongated, interior white; columella with 4 or 5 prominent folds, callus thick; siphonal canal short, straight, wide.

Figures

FIGURE 4: A. Proneptunea (?) minuta Castellanos, 1992, MACN-In 40694, scale bar = 1 mm. B. “Savatieria” meridionalis (Smith, 1881), MACN-In 40685, scale bar = 1 mm. C. “Savatieria” chordata Castellanos, Rolán & Bartolotta, 1987, MACN-In 40687, scale bar = 1 mm. D. Buccinidae sp., MACN-In 40686, scale bar = 1 mm. E. Fuegotrophon pallidus (Broderip, 1832), MACN-In 40690, scale bar = 5 mm. F. Trophon ohlini Strebel, 1904, MACN-In 40689, scale bar = 5 mm. G. Trophon plicatus (Lightfoot, 1786), MACN-In 40688, scale bar = 2 mm. H. Paradmete crymochara (Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885), MACN-In 40691, scale bar = 5 mm. I. Mangelia michaelseni (Strebel, 1905), MACN-In 40693, scale bar = 1 mm. J. Leucosyrinx angusteplicata (Strebel, 1905), MACN-In 40692, scale bar = 4 mm. K. Thesbia michaelseni (Strebel, 1905), MACN-In 40695, scale bar = 1 mm. L. Admete magellanica (Strebel, 1905), MACN-In 40696, scale bar = 3 mm.