Leptochiton belknapi Dall 1878

Leptochiton belknapi Dall, 1878 Leptochiton belknapi Dall 1878: 1. While the species was originally described from the Bering Sea of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands, from a depth of 1840 m “only”, there are subsequent deeper records of this species from the following localities: ­ specimen number unkno...

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Main Author: Schwabe, Enrico
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/6234335
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6234335
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Summary:Leptochiton belknapi Dall, 1878 Leptochiton belknapi Dall 1878: 1. While the species was originally described from the Bering Sea of the Alaskan Aleutian Islands, from a depth of 1840 m “only”, there are subsequent deeper records of this species from the following localities: ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Leptochiton benthus, which is a junior synonym] from the North Pacific, 15 ° north of Hawaii (35 ° 41 'N, 157 ° 42 'E), 4206 m (Haddon 1886) ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Lepidopleurus mesogonus, which is a junior synonym] from Canada, British Columbia, off the Queen Charlotte Islands [53 °06’N, 132 ° 14 ’W], 2904 m (Dall 1902) ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Lepidopleurus halistreptus, which is a junior synonym] from Mexico, off Acapulco (14 ° 46 'N, 98 ° 40 'W), 3436 m (Dall 1902) [locality data from Dall 1908] ­ 3 specimens [described as Lepidopleurus giganteus, which is a junior synonym] from Indonesia, south of Sulawesi Tengarra, Banda Sea (06° 24 'S, 124 ° 39 'E), 2798 m (Nierstrasz 1905) ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Lepidopleurus opacus, which is a junior synonym] from the Gulf of Panama (07°05' 30 ''N, 79 ° 40 'W), 2323 m (Dall 1908) ­ specimen number unknown; [described as Lepidopleurus opacus] from between the Galapagos Islands and the Peruvian coast (04° 33 'S, 87 ° 42.5 'W), 3667 m (Dall 1908) ­ 1 specimen [as Lepidopleurus (Leptochiton) benthus (Haddon, 1886)] from the eastern Pacific (15 °N, 125 °W), 4000 m (Hanselman 1977) ­ Lepidopleurus benthus (Haddon, 1886) was generally mentioned as occurring at a depth below 4000 m (Sirenko 1977) ­ 4 specimens [as Leptochiton alveolus] from the United States of America, Oregon, off Lincoln County (44 ° 33.5 'N, 125 ° 14.6 'W), 2000 m (Ferreira 1979) [this is “ CASIZ RV Ancona ”, data from: http:// www.calacademy.org/research/izg/iz_coll_db/index.asp] ­ 3 specimens [as Leptochiton alveolus] from the United States of America, California, 10 miles SE off Farallon Islands, SW by S 1 / 4 S (37 ° 48 'N, [122 ° 58 ’W]), ...