Neptunea jewetti Mclean & Clark 2023, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Mclean, James H., Clark, Roger N.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Neogastropoda; Buccinidae; Neptunea; Neptunea jewetti; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8391589; https://zenodo.org/record/8391589

Neptunea jewetti n. sp. Figures 17 F–G urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: D8DE791E-FE05-4AE9-9A87-F503B07F7E65 Type locality: SE side of Yunaska Island, Islands of Four Mountains (52°35.6 N, 170°38.24 W), 18 m. (AKMAP 2006 station: AKALE06-0037) ( leg. Stephen C. Jewett, 17 July, 2006). Type material: LACM 3587 (49.7 mm). Description: Shell of moderate size (50 mm), pyriform, rather broad, whorls somewhat flattened above suture; suture weakly impressed; periostracum absent. protoconch small, about 1.4 mm in diameter, smooth, 1.5 whorls (partially obscured by a bryozoan in the holotype), 3.5 teleconch whorls. Axial and spiral sculpture lacking except for faint incremental growth lines; color uniformly dark brown. Aperture slightly more than half of shell height; Aperture large, oval; canal short, broad. Operculum notably smaller than aperture, nucleus terminal. Radula: Rachidian tooth broadly rectangular, bearing five short, sharply pointed cusps, grading slightly from the outer to the central one. Lateral teeth ... : Published as part of Mclean, James H. & Clark, Roger N., 2023, Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, pp. 151-201 in Zootaxa 5351 (2) on pages 183-185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391375 ...