Dondersia Hubrecht 1888

• Main Authors: Cobo, M. Carmen, Kocot, Kevin M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Solenogastres; Pholidoskepia; Dondersiidae; Dondersia; Antarctic; Indian; Antarc*; Antarktis*; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4548004; https://zenodo.org/record/4548004

Genus Dondersia Hubrecht, 1888 Type species. Dondersia festiva Hubrecht, 1888, Mediterranean Sea 60 m. Other species: D. annulata Nierstrasz, 1902, Indian Ocean (Indonesia) 38 m; D. cnidevorans Salvini-Plawen, 1978, Antarctic 659–717 m; D. ? laminata Salvini-Plawen, 1978, Antarctic 311‾ 426 m; D. ? stylastericola Salvini-Plawen, 1978, Antarctic 300 m; D. namibiensis Scheltema, Schander & Kocot, 2012, South East Atlantic 619 m. D. incali (Scheltema, 1999), North East Atlantic 2091 m. D. todtae Klink, Bergmeier, Neusser & Ĵrger, 2015, East Atlantic, Azores Islands, 60 m. Diagnosis. Elongate body without keel. Anterior end tapered to beaklike point, posterior end with a fingerlike projection and with a posterior lobe (in mature specimens). Leaf-shaped scales most abundant type of sclerites with oar-shaped (= pallet-shaped) or laminar scales scattered between them. With or without common atrio-buccal cavity. Monoserial radula; teeth with four denticles; two central denticles fused and curved distally; two lateral, outswung, curved denticles arising from rounded, serrated base. With or without dorsoterminal sensory organ. With or without copulatory stylets. Without respiratory folds. With seminal vesicles. : Published as part of Cobo, M. Carmen & Kocot, Kevin M., 2021, On the diversity of abyssal Dondersiidae (Mollusca: Aplacophora) with the description of a new genus, six new species, and a review of the family, pp. 63-97 in Zootaxa 4933 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4547986 : {"references": ["Hubrecht, A. W. (1888) Dondersia festiva gen. et spec. nov. In: Feestbundel aan Franciscus Cornelis Donders op den 27 sten. Mei 1888, aangeboden door het Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde. F. van Rossen, Amsterdam, pp. 324 - 339.", "Nierstrasz, H. (1902) The Solenogastres of the Siboga-Expedition. Siboga-Expeditie, 47, 1 - 46. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10915", "Salvini-Plawen, L. (1978) Antarktische und Subantarktische Solenogastres - Eine monographie: 1898 - 1974. Zoologica, 128, 1 - 315.", "Scheltema, A. H., Schander, C. & Kocot, K. M. (2012) Hard and soft anatomy in two genera of Dondersiidae (Mollusca, Aplacophora, Solenogastres). Biological Bulletin, 222 (3), 233 - 269. https: // doi. org / 10.1086 / BBLv 222 n 3 p 233", "Scheltema, A. H. (1999) New eastern Atlantic neomenioid aplacophoran molluscs (Neomeniamorpha, Aplacophora). Ophelia, 5, 1 - 28. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00785326.1999.10409397"]}