Buccinum lanatum 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; Buccinum; Buccinum lanatum; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8399664; https://zenodo.org/record/8399664

Buccinum lanatum n. sp. Figures: 22 F–G urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 220DC21A-C6D3-4EAA-A3F8-B9EE43935367 Type locality: SW of Herbert Island, Islands of Four Mountains, Aleutian Is., Alaska. 238 m (52°38.8 N, 170°12.5 W) (NMFS 176- 2016-1-29), R/ V Ocean Provider ( leg. R. Lauth, 13 June, 2016). Type material: Holotype, SBMNH 169021 Description: Shell of moderate size, to 42 mm, thin, fragile, poorly calcified; profile broad, shoulder subtabulate; pical whorls missing; sculpture apparently lacking, shell surface obscured by periostracum. Periostracum yellowish-brown, very thick, lamellar, bearing short bristles; forming three broad, raised spiral ridges, with axil rows of 6–12 short bristles largest at the shoulder, two similar, smaller rows on the base. Operculum, small, about ¼ as large as the aperture, nucleus lateral. Remarks: Buccinum lanatum is unusual among the “ Buccinum ” group with its very fragile, poorly calcified shell and thick, lamellar periostracum. B. lanatum is similar to B. tunicatum ... : 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 198-199, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8391375 ...