Limea crassa Forbes 1844
Limea crassa (Forbes, 1844) Fig. 6 n–p Lima (Limatula) crassa Forbes, 1844 (p. 193). Limea sarsii Lovén, 1846 (p. 186). Notolimea crassa crassa (Forbes, 1843) — Nordsieck 1969 (p. 56). Notolimea crassa sarsi (Loven, 1846) — Nordsieck 1969 (p. 56, pl. 9, fig. 36.01). Lima (Notolimea) crassa (Forbes)...
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Summary: | Limea crassa (Forbes, 1844) Fig. 6 n–p Lima (Limatula) crassa Forbes, 1844 (p. 193). Limea sarsii Lovén, 1846 (p. 186). Notolimea crassa crassa (Forbes, 1843) — Nordsieck 1969 (p. 56). Notolimea crassa sarsi (Loven, 1846) — Nordsieck 1969 (p. 56, pl. 9, fig. 36.01). Lima (Notolimea) crassa (Forbes) — Di Geronimo & Panetta 1973 (p. 101, pl. 2, fig. 10). Limea (Notolimea) crassa (Forbes) — Di Geronimo 1974 (p. 154, pl. 3, fig. 6). Limea crassa (Forbes) — Di Geronimo & Bellagamba 1985 (pl. 3, fig. 10). Notolimea crassa (Forbes, 1844) — Cossignani et al. 1992 (fig. 300); Poppe & Goto 1993 (p. 77, pl. 12, fig. 13); Salas 1996 (p. 58); Giannuzzi-Savelli et al. 2001 (p. 222, fig. 471); Repetto et al. 2005 (p. 305, mid left fig.); Beck et al. 2006 (p. 103, top fig.). Notolimea crassa (Forbes) —Rosso et al. 2010 (fig. 11 F). Limea crassa (Forbes, 1844) — Oliver et al. 2016 (online resource). Diagnostic characters. Oval, nearly equilateral shell; hinge line with small denticles on both sides of the ligamental pit; commarginal lamellar folds passing over radial ribs; raised, fluted to spatulate projections at the intersections. Prodissoconch: shell type ST-2D; length about 110 µm; roundish D-shaped outline; convex profile; surface with fine granulations; P-2 absent; transition to the nepioconch marked by narrow metamorphic shell lip. Occurrence. Box-corer samples BC04 (46), BC05 (57), BC11 (3), BC22 (1), BC66 (32), BC67 (6), BC68 (1), BC71 (1), BC72 (187); cores BC04 (33), BC05 (111), BC21 (85), BC51 (67), BC52 (3), BC67 (1), BC72 (89). Maximum height: 3.5 mm. Distribution and habitat. Limea crassa is distributed from Norway and Iceland to West Africa, the Azores, St. Helena and the Mediterranean, dwelling on muddy bottoms from about 30 to 2700 m depth (Nordsieck 1969; Poppe & Goto 1993; Pons-Moyà & Pons 1999, Oliver et al. 2016). It was regarded as an accompanying element of both VP (bathyal mud) and CB (deep-sea white corals) biocoenoses (Di Geronimo & Bellagamba 1985), also occurring in the ... |
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