Dondersia Hubrecht 1888

• Main Authors: Cobo, M. Carmen, Kocot, Kevin M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Solenogastres; Pholidoskepia; Dondersiidae; Dondersia; Antarc*; Antarctic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4548004; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/2E3387FBF44E900E6DFB73D9FC5AFDBF

Genus Dondersia Hubrecht, 1888 Type species. Dondersia festiva Hubrecht, 1888, Mediterranean Sea 60 m. Other species: D. annulata Nierstrasz, 1902, Indian Ocean (Indonesia) 38 m; D. cnidevorans Salvini-Plawen, 1978, Antarctic 659–717 m; D. ? laminata Salvini-Plawen, 1978, Antarctic 311‾ 426 m; D. ? stylastericola Salvini-Plawen, 1978, Antarctic 300 m; D. namibiensis Scheltema, Schander & Kocot, 2012, South East Atlantic 619 m. D. incali (Scheltema, 1999), North East Atlantic 2091 m. D. todtae Klink, Bergmeier, Neusser & Ĵrger, 2015, East Atlantic, Azores Islands, 60 m. Diagnosis. Elongate body without keel. Anterior end tapered to beaklike point, posterior end with a fingerlike projection and with a posterior lobe (in mature specimens). Leaf-shaped scales most abundant type of sclerites with oar-shaped (= pallet-shaped) or laminar scales scattered between them. With or without common atrio-buccal cavity. Monoserial radula; teeth with four denticles; two central denticles fused and curved distally; two lateral, outswung, curved denticles arising from rounded, serrated base. With or without dorsoterminal sensory organ. With or without copulatory stylets. Without respiratory folds. With seminal vesicles. Published as part of Cobo, M. Carmen & Kocot, Kevin M., 2021, On the diversity of abyssal Dondersiidae (Mollusca: Aplacophora) with the description of a new genus, six new species, and a review of the family, pp. 63-97 in Zootaxa 4933 (1) on page 68, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4933.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4547986