Brookula bohni Schwabe & Engl, 2008, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Schwabe, Enrico, Engl, Winfried
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Seguenziida; Liotiidae; Brookula; Brookula bohni; Antarc*; Antarctica; Arctic; Drake Passage
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5631753; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5631753

Brookula bohni sp. nov. (Figs 7–8) Type material Holotype (ZSM Mol 20070895), leg. Katrin Linse, February 4 2002, ANT XIX/3 (ANDEEP I). Paratypes, one from type locality (ZSM Mol 20021185). Two paratypes (ZSM Mol 20021177) Antarctica, Drake Passage, St. PS 61 / 042–02 (59°40.29’S 57°35.43’W to 59°40.42’S 57°35.27’W), 3680–3683 m, Katrin Linse, January 27 2002, ANT XIX/3 (ANDEEP I). Besides the SEM­mounted holotype, all other specimens are fixed and preserved in 96% ethanol. Type locality: Antarctica, South Shetlands, St. PS 61/043–08 (60°27.12’S 56°05.10’W to 60°27.18’S 56°04.80’W), 3959–3961 m (Fig. 8). Etymology: The species is named after our friend Jens Michael Bohn (ZSM), a holothurian specialist and participant of the relevant expeditions. We selected his surname because his nickname is “ Bohni ”. Description: Shell minute, up to 1.30 mm long, 1.28 mm wide (Fig. 7A), globosely turbinate, fragile, translucent white in color, with inflated whorls slightly depressed at the shoulder, slightly expanded ... : Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico & Engl, Winfried, 2008, Description of two new deep­water species of the genus Brookula Iredale, 1912 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Trochoidea), with a revision of the genus for the Subantarctic and Arctic Sector of the Atlantic Ocean *, pp. 187-204 in Zootaxa 1866 on pages 196-198, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183706 ...