Seguenzia elegans Jeffreys 1885 ...

• Main Authors: Salvador, Rodrigo B., Cavallari, Daniel C., Simone, Luiz R. L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Seguenziida; Seguenziidae; Seguenzia; Seguenzia elegans; Abbott; Argentine; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6138469; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6138469

Seguenzia elegans Jeffreys, 1885 (Figs. 19–21) Seguenzia elegans Jeffreys, 1876: 201 [nomem nudum]. Seguenzia elegans Jeffreys, 1885: 42 (pl. 5, fig. 1–1a); Clarke, 1959: 232; Clarke, 1961: 350 (pl. 2, figs. 5, 7; pl. 3, fig. 5); Abbott, 1974: 38; Gofas et al., 2001: 184, Segers et al., 2009: 5. Seguenzia cf. elegans: Quinn, 1983b: 728 (figs. 5, 26). Type locality: Porcupine Expedition, 1870, Atl. St. 16, 17, 17a, off the coast of Portugal, 740–1095 fathoms (ca. 1350–2000 m depth) (Jeffreys 1885). Distribution: North Atlantic: Bay of Biscay, off Portugal (Jeffreys 1885); off Bermuda (Clarke 1959); off Yucatan, Mexico (Quinn 1983b). South Atlantic: Cape Basin and Argentine Basin (Clarke 1961). New occurrence: Southeastern Brazil, Espírito Santo, from 1540 to 3450 m depths. Description: Shell small, conical, relatively thin-walled, with stepped spire. Color translucent to nacreous glossy white. Protoconch (~1 whorl) prominent, bulbous, microporous; transition to teleoconch sometimes visible as an orthocline ... : Published as part of Salvador, Rodrigo B., Cavallari, Daniel C. & Simone, Luiz R. L., 2014, Seguenziidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) from SE Brazil collected by the Marion Dufresne (MD 55) expedition, pp. 536-550 in Zootaxa 3878 (6) on pages 544-546, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3878.6.2, http://zenodo.org/record/226061 ...