Diversity of Coralliophilinae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Muricidae) at Austral Islands (South Pacific)

The Coralliophilinae is a large subfamily of Muricidae, including 200-250 species that feed exclusively on anthozoans. The material collected during the expeditions BENTHAUS and RAPA 2002 at Austral Islands are reviewed. Twenty-eigth species are recorded, one species is described as new, Coralliophi...

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Published in:Zoosystema
Main Author: OLIVERIO, Marco
Other Authors: Oliverio, Marco
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: PUBLICATIONS SCIENTIFIQUES DU MUSEUM, PARIS 2009
Subjects:
austral island
coralliophilinae
mollusca
neogastropoda
new specie
south west pacific
Austral
Austral Island
Pacific
Rapa
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11573/102337
https://doi.org/10.5252/z2009n4a2
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Summary:The Coralliophilinae is a large subfamily of Muricidae, including 200-250 species that feed exclusively on anthozoans. The material collected during the expeditions BENTHAUS and RAPA 2002 at Austral Islands are reviewed. Twenty-eigth species are recorded, one species is described as new, Coralliophila australis n. sp., diagnosed by its large size and elongated shape. All but one species showed a planktotrophic development, 10 species (36%) were from shallow waters and 15 species (54%) from deep waters. The smaller proportion of deep water coralliophiline species (compared to the range and average on a global scale) in this marginal area of the Pacific, suggests that marginality may affect the deep water faunas more than the shallow water ones.

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