First record of living Acesta (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from an Antarctic seamount

During a survey of Scott and Admiralty seamounts as part of the New Zealand IPY-CAML expedition in 2008, a number of new records and new species were documented (e.g., Bowden et al. 2011). Here we report on the finding of a single living specimen of Acesta sp. (station 207, Scott B seamount) and sev...

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Published in:Marine Biodiversity
Main Authors: PIAZZA, PAOLA, ALVARO, MARIA CHIARA, GHIGLIONE, CLAUDIO, SCHIAPARELLI, STEFANO, David, A. Bowden, Malcom, R. Clark, Nicola, Conci
Other Authors: Piazza, Paola, Alvaro, MARIA CHIARA, Ghiglione, Claudio, Schiaparelli, Stefano
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Antarc*
Antarctic
IPY
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11567/821562
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-015-0397-6
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Summary:During a survey of Scott and Admiralty seamounts as part of the New Zealand IPY-CAML expedition in 2008, a number of new records and new species were documented (e.g., Bowden et al. 2011). Here we report on the finding of a single living specimen of Acesta sp. (station 207, Scott B seamount) and several loose valves, both recent and subfossil at seafloor photographic stations 198, 202, 207 (Scott B seamount), 219 (Scott A seamount) and of a single valve at epibenthic sled station 256 (Scott I seamount) (Fig. 1).

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