Adipicola leticiae Crespo 2017, new species ...

• Main Author: Crespo, Enrique
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Bivalvia; Mytiloida; Mytilidae; Adipicola; Adipicola leticiae; Argentina; Argentine; Balaenoptera borealis; Sei Whale
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6038776; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6038776

Adipicola leticiae new species Figs 2A ̄J, 3ĀK, 4ĀD Type material. Holotype CNP-Inv 2 229 and twelve paratypes: CNP-Inv 2230, one articulated specimen, CNP-Inv 2231, one articulated specimen, CNP-Inv 2232, one articulated specimen and CNP-Inv 2233, nine articulated specimens, all attached to the skull of a sei whale Balaenoptera borealis. Type locality. 46° 10´S; 61° 50´W, off San Jorge Gulf, Argentina, from a depth of 104 m (Fig. 1). The collection date was July 21, 2010. Etymology. This species is dedicated to Leticia Mercante, the first author´s wife, for her invaluable support during many years. Diagnosis. The new species is characterized by the combination of the following characters: adult shell of medium size, up to 20 mm in length, elongate, fragile, ventral margin straight, distance from umbos to anterior shell margin about 30% of shell length; larval shell with prodissoconch 1 of about 175 µm and prodissoconch 2 with a size between 425 to 580 µm in length. Description. Shell, fragile, ... : Published as part of Crespo, Enrique, 2017, First record of the genus Adipicola (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Mytilidae) and description of a new species from the Argentine SW Atlantic Ocean, pp. 325-338 in Zootaxa 4318 (2) on pages 329-332, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/886841 ...