Beringius kiskensis 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; Beringius; Beringius kiskensis; Sirius; Kiska; Kiska Island; Sirius Point; Segula Island; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8399595; https://zenodo.org/record/8399595

Beringius kiskensis n. sp. Figure 10 E–G urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 817D795B-02F7-48ED-A4A3-FC48D8E2A73D Type locality: E off Sirius Point, Kiska Island, Rat Ids., Aleutian Is., Alaska (52°06.41 N, 177°42.32 E), 97 m; (NMFS 143-2006 - 01-203). Type material. Holotype, LACM 3574, 85.4 mm. ( leg. 28 July, 2006, trawled, R/ V Sea Storm ); Paratypes: Pt 1, SBMNH 174792, 116.7 mm. S of Segula Island, Rat Ids. (51º51.46 N, 178º16.06 E), 95 m. (NMFS 143- 200601 - 176); Pt 2, RNC 4910, 112.7 mm. E of Kiska Island, Rat Ids. (52°02.99 N, 177°27.23 E), 96 m. (NMFS 143-201001 - 128). Description: Shell of moderate size (to 116 mm, SBMNH 174792) nearly fusiform; periostracum thin, adherent, yellowish-brown. Whorls rounded; suture strongly impressed; protoconch with 2.5 whorls; 4.5 teleconch whorls. Axial ribs prosocline, prominently raised, slender, 15–16 on the penultimate whorl, interspaces about as wide as ribs. Spiral sculpture of seven to nine faint, spiral cords, obvious only on axial ribs, interspaces about as ... : 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 page 167, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391375 ...