Beringius frausseni 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 frausseni; Okhotsk; Stalemate Bank; Kamchatka; okhotsk sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8399599; https://zenodo.org/record/8399599

Beringius frausseni n. sp. Figure 11 E–I urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 606C778D-058A-4213-ADBA-3F9B1B5E147A Type locality: Shumushu Island (Okhotsk Sea, side), Kurile Is., Russia (50°44 N, 156°19 E), 118–120 m. Type material. Holotype ZIN 62061, 136.0 mm; Paratypes: Pt 1, RBCM 979-01070, 124.2 mm. Russia, Kamchatka, Kronotskiy Cape (54°43 N, 162°11 E), 280 m; Pt 2, RNC 4915, 109.7 mm. “Aleutian Islands” (Stalemate Bank?), 140 m. ( ex. Koen Fraussen). Description: Shell large (height to 136 mm, holotype), pyriform, white, slender to moderately inflated; periostracum thin, adherent, light brown. Protoconch with 2.5 whorls; teleconch with four whorls; whorls rounded to slightly shouldered, suture moderately impressed.Axial ribs (when present) low, rounded, 12–13 on penultimate whorl, interspaces as broad as ribs. Spiral sculpture of low, broad, rounded cords, 14–18 above the suture; base of final whorl with about 15 similar cords, spaced somewhat further apart. Aperture large, less than half of shell height, canal ... : 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 168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391375 ...