Pristigloma minima

• Main Authors: Gofas, Serge, Luque, Ángel A., Oliver, Joan Daniel, Templado, José, Serrano, Alberto
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Nuculanida; Ringiculidae; Pristigloma; Pristigloma minima; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5837822; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/D63CF03CC33BFFAF8C07FCA80CF3FA55

Pristigloma minima (Seguenza, 1877) Fig. 31J‒K Yoldia minima Seguenza, 1877a: 96. Yoldia minima – Seguenza 1877b: 1178, pl. 5 figs 27, 27a–c. Pristigloma minima (Seguenza, 1877) ‒ Hoffman & Freiwald 2017: 69. Material examined GALICIA BANK • 1 sh; 42°40′ N, 11°36′ W; 675‒685 m; 19 Oct. 1987; SEAMOUNT 1 DW111; MNHN • 1 v; 43°00.12′ N, 11°57.67′ W; 1706 m; 29 Jul. 2011; BANGAL 0711 V2; MNCN • 2 v; 42°41.94′ N, 11°40.58′ W; 744 m; 31 Jul. 2011; BANGAL 0711 V4; MNCN. Remarks This minute species, originally described from the Pleistocene of Sicily (see Di Geronimo & La Perna 1997), has been reported from the Canaries (Ortega & Gofas 2019) and from several North Atlantic seamounts including GB (Hoffman & Freiwald 2017). Pseudoglomus pompholyx (Dall, 1890) from the Western Atlantic is superficially very similar, but larger (4 mm) and differs in that the ligament is set in a pit dorsally to the hinge line which remains unaffected (see Ockelmann & Warén 1998 for a good figure), whereas the present species has a resilifer interrupting the hinge. The generic placement could only be ascertained with live-taken specimens. Published as part of Gofas, Serge, Luque, Ángel A., Oliver, Joan Daniel, Templado, José & Serrano, Alberto, 2021, The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean), pp. 1-114 in European Journal of Taxonomy 785 (1) on page 78, DOI:10.5852/ejt.2021.785.1605, http://zenodo.org/record/5798418