Dacrydium panamensis Knudsen, 1970

Wiklund, Helena, Taylor, John D., Dahlgren, Thomas G., Todt, Christiane, Ikebe, Chiho, Rabone, Muriel & Glover, Adrian G., 2017, Abyssal fauna of the UK- 1 polymetallic nodule exploration area, Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific Ocean: Mollusca, ZooKeys 707, pp. 1-46 : 16

Dacrydium panamensis Knudsen, 1970

Material examined.

NHM_117 NHMUK 20170067, collected 2013-10-11, 13.79335 -116.70308, 4081 m. http://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/180e485f-f1c2-41e1-b858-f02ba537804b

Description.

Shell small, subovate, translucent, anterior-ventral margin slightly produced, highest point near mid-line. Voucher NHM_117 Shell length 1.7 mm, shell height 2.5 mm (Fig. 14).

Genetic data.

GenBank NHM_117 18S-MF157471.

Remarks.

Identified from figures in Knudsen (1970) and Coan & Valentich-Scott (2012). The holotype of D. panamensis was collected on the Galathea expedition (stn 726) at 3670-3270 m depth in Gulf of Panama. In the molecular analysis (Fig. 17) it aligns as a sister species to many shallow water Mytilidae . No genetic matches on GenBank.

Ecology.

Found in polymetallic nodule province.