Veleropilina veleronis Menzies & Layton 1962

• Main Author: Schwabe, Enrico
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Monoplacophora; Tryblidiida; Neopilinidae; Veleropilina; Veleropilina veleronis; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Baja; Menzies; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6234312; https://zenodo.org/record/6234312

Veleropilina veleronis (Menzies & Layton, 1962) Neopilina (Vema) sp. Menzies & Robinson 1961: 338, fig. 1. Neopilina (Neopilina) veleronis Menzies & Layton 1962: 402, pl. 7, figs A–F, pl. 8, fig. G, pls 9, 10. The 14 specimens known from the original description are all from the type locality: Mexico, Baja California, off Cedros Island, slope of the Cedros Trench, 30 miles off Natividad Island light (27 ° 52 ' 25 ''­ 27 ° 51 ' 30 ''N, 115 ° 44 ' 30 ''­ 115 ° 45 ' 15 ''W) and were collected at a depth between 2730–2769 m. Apart from the shallow water species Micropilina arntzi Warén & Hain, 1992 (17), and the abyssal species Ve ma e wi ng i (Clarke & Menzies, 1959) (11) and Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957 (10), this species was most numerous at a single station (14). Genus Ve ma Clarke & Menzies, 1959 Type species : Neopilina (Vema) ewingi Clarke & Menzies, 1959, by original designation. : Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico, 2008, A summary of reports of abyssal and hadal Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora (Mollusca) *, pp. 205-222 in Zootaxa 1866 on page 209, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183815 : {"references": ["Menzies, R. J. & Layton, W. (1962) A new species of Monoplacophoran Mollusc, Neopilina (Neopilina) veleronis from the slope of the Cedros Trench, Mexico. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5 (13), 401 - 406, pls 7 - 10.", "Menzies, R. J. & Robinson, D. J. (1961) Recovery of the Living Fossil Mollusk, Neopilina, from the slope of the Cedros Trench, Mexico. Science, 134, 338 - 339.", "Waren, A. & Hain, S. (1992) Laevipilina antarctica and Micropilina arntzi, two new monoplacophorans from the Antarctic. The Veliger, 35 (3), 165 - 176.", "Clarke, A. H. & Menzies, R. J. (1959) Neopilina (Vema) ewingi, a second living species of the Paleozoic class Monoplacophora. Science, 129, 1026 - 1027.", "Lemche, H. (1957) A new living deep-sea mollusc of the Cambro-Devonian class Monoplacophora. Nature, 179, 413 - 416."]}