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Last snails standing since the Early Pleistocene, a tale of Calliostomatidae (Gastropoda) living in deep-water coral habitats in the north-eastern Atlantic

Marine Research Department, Senckenberg am Meer, Südstrand 40, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Marine Research Department, Senckenberg am Meer, Südstrand 40, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Marine Research Department, Senckenberg am Meer, Südstrand 40, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, and Utrecht University, Texel, Netherlands
Marine Research Department, Senckenberg am Meer, Südstrand 40, Wilhelmshaven, Germany MARUM, Bremen University, Leobener Strasse 8, Bremen, Germany
Mollusca Calliostoma deep-water coral associations NE Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean Sea systematics

Abstract

Three species in the gastropod genus Calliostoma are confirmed as living in Deep-Water Coral (DWC) habitats in the NE Atlantic Ocean: Calliostoma bullatum (Philippi, 1844), C. maurolici (Seguenza, 1876) and C. leptophyma Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896. Up to now, C. bullatum was only known as fossil from Early to Mid-Pleistocene outcrops in DWC-related habitats in southern Italy; our study confirmed its living presence in DWC off Mauritania. A discussion is provided on the distribution of DWC-related calliostomatids in the NE Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea from the Pleistocene to the present.

 

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