Laevipilina antarctica Waren & Hain 1992

• Main Author: Schwabe, Enrico
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Monoplacophora; Tryblidiida; Neopilinidae; Laevipilina; Laevipilina antarctica; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Lazarev; Wegener Canyon; Filatova; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6234297; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6234297

Laevipilina antarctica Warén & Hain, 1992 Laevipilina antarctica Warén & Hain 1992: 167, figs 2 –5, 6–8, 10–16, 19, 27. This species, originally described from the Weddell and Lazarev seas, Antarctica, had a bathymetric range from 210–644 m (Warén & Hain 1992). Recent additional reports by Schrödl et al. (2006) include a first abyssal record for this species. The abyssal specimen comes from soft bottom terraces 3 km to the SW edge of the Wegener Canyon (70 ° 38.46 ’S, 14 ° 42.87 ’W – 70 ° 39.19 ’S, 14 ° 43.44 ’W), Weddell Sea, where it was collected at 3102–3136 m depth. This was not only a considerably range extension but also the first indication that this genus is found at abyssal depths. Genus Monoplacophorus Moskalev, Starobogatov & Filatova, 1983 Type species: Monoplacophorus zenkevitchi Moskalev, Starobogatov & Filatova, 1983, by original designation. Published as part of Schwabe, Enrico, 2008, A summary of reports of abyssal and hadal Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora (Mollusca) *, pp. 205-222 in Zootaxa 1866 on page 207, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.183815