Limatula hyperborea

• Main Author: Allen, J. A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Bivalvia; Limida; Limidae; Limatula; Limatula hyperborea; Greenland; Abbott; Ryen; Forsblad Fjord; East Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5252761; https://zenodo.org/record/5252761

Limatula hyperborea (Jensen, 1909) Type locality: Forsblad Fjord, East Greenland, 72 ‡ 27 ’ N, 25 ‡ 28 ’ W, 91–164 m. Type: probably most of the original specimens were placed in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen (ZMC). Stuardo (1968) records and photographs a broken specimen and a paralectotype from the ZMC but these not found in 2002, nor in the Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm, however, 1 spec. (sh) exists (? lectotype) USNM No.209682, Forsblad Fjord, East Greenland, 91–164 m, i.e. from the type locality of the 1900 Danish Expedition. Lima sulculus Leche, 1878: 34. Lima hyperborea Jensen, 1905: 329, figure 1a–d; Jensen, 1912: 41, pl. II, figure 5a–e. Limatula hyperborea Jensen, 1905: 329, figure 1a–d; Filotova, 1948: 107, figure 8a, b; Soot-Ryen, 1958: 14; Stuardo, 1968: 226, pl. 14 figures 59, 60; Abbott, 1974: 454; Fleming, 1978: 24; Høisaeter, 1986: 117. Lima hyperborea Jensen, 1912: 41, pl. 2, figure 5. Lima (Limatula) hyperborea Thiele, 1920: 43, pl. 9, figures 3–5; Ockelmann, 1958: 72, pl. 2, figure 3. Limatula gwyni hyperborea Nordsieck, 1969: 57. Limatula gwyni var. hyperborea Lucas, 1980: 6. Lima subovata Friele and Greig, 1901: 7. : Published as part of Allen, J. A., 2010, The Recent species of the genera Limatula and Limea (Bivalvia, Limacea) present in the Atlantic, with particular reference to those in deep water, pp. 2591-2653 in Journal of Natural History 38 (20) on page 2646, DOI: 10.1080/00222930310001647442, http://zenodo.org/record/5250711