Ophieulima Waren & Sibuet 1981

• Main Authors: Souza, Leonardo Santos De, Pimenta, Alexandre Dias, Barros, José Carlos Nascimento De
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Littorinimorpha; Eulimidae; Ophieulima; Barros; New Zealand; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4543009; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4543009

Genus Ophieulima Warén & Sibuet, 1981 Type species. Stilifer minima Dall, 1927, by original designation, Recent; North Atlantic. Diagnosis. Shell small, few whorls, colorless, globose; protoconch brownish, cylindrical; teleoconch inflated, strongly convex whorls, surface usually sculptured by microscopic spiral lines; aperture broad, almost half the size of total length, outer lip prosocline (adapted from Warén & Sibuet 1981). Remarks. Ophieulima Warén & Sibuet, 1981 is a genus that parasitizes ophiuroids and comprises three species (MolluscaBase Eds. 2020c): O. minima (Dall, 1927), from the North Atlantic and Mediterranean (Dall 1927; Bouchet & Warén 1986; Romani et al. 2014; Hoffman & Freiwald 2020); O. fuscoapicata Warén, 1981, from New Zealand (Warén 1981a); and O. antecessor Lozouet, 1999, a fossil species from the Miocene of France (Lozouet 1999). The new record of O. minima herein is the first record of the genus in the southwestern Atlantic. Published as part of Souza, Leonardo Santos De, Pimenta, Alexandre Dias & Barros, José Carlos Nascimento De, 2021, Revision of the deep-sea Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda) from off Northeast Brazil, pp. 451-504 in Zootaxa 4927 (4) on page 485, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4927.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4542923