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Issue: Vol. 3096 No. 1: 11 Nov. 2011
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2011-11-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3096.1.6
Page range: 59–63
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 2

Three new species of the deep-water genus Bathycadulus (Mollusca, Scaphopoda, Gadilidae)

Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, département Systématique et Évolution, 57 rue Buffon, F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) and Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Montevideo (Uruguay)
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Pasteur, 458, sl. 309, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 222290-240
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, CC. 399, CP 11000 Montevideo, Uruguay
Mollusca Scaphopoda Gadilidae

Abstract

The genus Bathycadulus Scarabino, 1995 was described on the basis of a bathyal species (Bathycadulus fabrizioi Scarabino, 1995) collected from the southern Indian and western Pacific waters. Here we describe three new species, and conduct a morphometric analysis of shells of the four species. Those findings confirming the rather large bathyal and abyssal geographic distribution of the genus.

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