Eubela limacina Dall 1881

• Main Authors: Figueira, Raquel Medeiros Andrade, Absalão, Ricardo Silva
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Neogastropoda; Raphitomidae; Eubela; Eubela limacina; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632953; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/8E7187D88E37674F47C0E511FB676C08

Eubela limacina (Dall, 1881) (Figs. 9–11) Pleurotoma ( Bela ) limacina Dall, 1881: 55; Daphnella limacina : Verrill (1882: 452); Dall (1889: 106, pl. IX, fig. 10); Eubela limacina : Powell (1966: 129, fig. A3–60, pl. 20, fig. 24); Absalão et al . (2005: 33, fig. 89); Rios (2009: 347, species 900); Pleurotoma ( Defrancia ) hormophora Watson, 1881: 457. Clathurella hormophora (Watson, 1881): Watson (1886: 351, pl. XXI, figs. 9a–c). Type material : Syntypes MCZ 7108, MCZ 7109, MCZ 7110, MCZ 7111 Type locality : Gulf of Mexico, Blake sta. 2, 1472 m; Yucatan Strait, 1170 m; Gulf Stream, 817 m. Material examined : Type material and 18402 [6] OP II # 44; 18403 [44] OP II # 49; 15919 [2] OP II # 67; 15540 [3] OP II # 69; 17307 [3] OP II # 74; 18404 [1] OP II # 75; 17170 [14] OP I # 44; 15051 [22] OP I # 49; 17055 [2] OP I # 59; 15348 [7] OP I # 74; 18405 [1] OP I # 75; 18406 [2] B # 32; 13847 [2] 13° 22’S 38°36’W, 750 m, 02–03/VIII/2001. Description : Shell high, turreted, white, up to 7.32 mm long. Protoconch with 4.5 whorls, yellow. Protoconch 1 with rows of tiny crosses. Protoconch 2 with somewhat curved axial riblets crossed by fine spiral threads on the posterior portion of the whorls and with diagonal reticulation on the anterior portion. Clear-cut proto-teleoconch boundary. Teleoconch with up to five whorls, slightly convex, with a subsutural row of beads, which is covered by numerous very fine spiral threads. Suture very shallow. Base smooth, short and convex, with inflexion to form a short anterior siphonal canal. Aperture elliptical (broken in the specimens studied here). Geographic distribution : Northwest Atlantic: Massachusetts (Verrill, 1882); Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan Strait, Gulf Stream (Dall, 1881, Dall, 1889); Santa Cruz, Florida (Dall, 1889). West Indies (Watson, 1886); Amapá, Brazil (Rios, 2009). Southwest Atlantic: Pernambuco (Watson, 1886); Bahia (Absalão et al ., 2005), Campos Basin, Rio de Janeiro (this paper). Bathymetry : 20 m (Absalão et al ., 2005)– 1596 m (this paper). Discussion: The material ...