Pleurotomella coelorhaphe Dautzenberg & Fischer 1896

• Main Authors: Figueira, Raquel Medeiros Andrade, Absalão, Ricardo Silva
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Neogastropoda; Raphitomidae; Pleurotomella; Pleurotomella coelorhaphe; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5632987; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5632987

Pleurotomella coelorhaphe Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896 (Figs. 42–43) Pleurotoma coelorhaphe Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896: 425, pl. 15, fig. 13. Pleurotoma (Pleurotomella) coelorhaphe Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896: Dautzenberg (1927: 41, pl. 3, fig. 9). Pleurotomella coeloraphe (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896): Bouchet & Warén (1980: 39, figs. 34, 99, 222, 223), misspelled for coelorhaphe. Type material: In Museé Océanographique de Monaco. Type locality: Azores, Princesse Alice (1895), sta. 46 (37 º 42 ’ 40 ”N, 27 º 27 ’ 30 ”W), 1385 m. Material examined: 15429 [2] OP I # 49; 17068 [2] OP I # 47; 19179 [9] OP II # 49; 19180 [2] OP II # 59; 19181 [2] OP I # 59. Description: Shell wide, white, up to 4.22 mm long. Protoconch with about 3.5 whorls. Protoconch conical. Protoconch 1 with spiral rows of tiny crosses. Protoconch 2 with diagonal cancellation on the lower 2 / 3 of the whorls and axial riblets crossed by very fine and faint spiral threads on the upper third. Clear-cut proto-teleoconch boundary. Teleoconch whorls with a slightly concave area below the suture, ornamented by axial riblets. Below this area the whorl is inflated and with 14 axial ribs (on the third whorl) that continue over the upper half of the base. About 21 sharp equidistant spiral cords distributed from the body whorl to the base. Spiral cords form projections where they cross the axial ribs. Shell surface granulose. Suture shallow. Base moderately elongated and concave. Anal sinus not discernible in our material. Outer lip thin. Anterior siphonal canal long and narrow. Aperture elliptical. Geographic distribution: Northeast Atlantic: Azores (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896; Dautzenberg, 1927); Azores and Portugal (Bouchet & Warén, 1980). Southwest Atlantic: Campos Basin, Rio de Janeiro (this paper). Bathymetry: 722 m (this paper)– 1980 m (Bouchet & Warén, 1980). Discussion: This species is very similar to P. packardii, the main difference being in the protoconch which is conical with a narrow tip, as in most other ...