Pusillina inconspicua ( Alder, 1844 )

Oliver, Joan Daniel, Gofas, Serge, Urgorri, Victoriano, Díaz-Agras, Guillermo & Templado, José, 2022, Rissoidae gastropods of the outer continental shelf and slope off Galicia (NW Spain), Zootaxa 5196 (1), pp. 1-45 : 33-34

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5196.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7224216

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D37947-484E-FFD1-A0B1-FC364550027E

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scientific name

Pusillina inconspicua ( Alder, 1844 )
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Pusillina inconspicua ( Alder, 1844) View in CoL

( Fig. 20 View FIGURE 20 )

Material examined. (12 empty shells and 23 with soft parts in 8 samples): SPAIN • 1 sPc; 43° 52.823′N, 008° 56.151′W to 43° 52.837′N, 008° 55.597′W; 988– 920 m; 08–15 SeP. 2002; DIVA-Artabria I DRN-1000 • 5 spc (1 juv); 43° 35.451′N, 008° 34.432′W to 43° 34.810′N, 008° 35.407′W; 153– 151 m; 08–15 SeP. 2002; DIVA-Artabria I EBS-150 • 1 sh; 43° 26.703′N, 008° 30.669′W to 43° 27.452′N, 008° 29.612′W; 103– 102 m; 10–20 SeP. 2003; DIVA-Artabria I EBS-100 • 1 sh; 43° 40.250′N, 008° 43.755′W to 43° 40.760′N, 008° 42.120′W; 207– 197 m; 10–20 Sep. 2003; DIVA-Artabria I EBS-200 • 5 sPc; 43° 29.412′N, 008° 28.362′W to 43° 29.779′N, 008° 28.240′W; 110– 111 m; 17–28 Sep. 2004; VERTIDOS GA-AT-110 • 10 sPc + 10 sh; 42° 30.391′N, 009° 19.517′W to 42° 29.428′N, 009° 17.924′W; 147–148 m; 17–28 SeP. 2004; VERTIDOS AG-EBS-150 • 1 sPc: 42° 31.176′N, 009° 23.380′W to 42° 32.132′N, 009° 24.151′W; 242–248 m; 17–28 SeP. 2004; VERTIDOS AG-EBS-250 • 1 sPc; 42° 50.507′N, 009° 25.773′W to 42° 48.810′N, 009° 25.198′W; 151– 148 m; 17–28 SeP. 2004; VERTIDOS CA-EBS-150 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. A species-complex can hide under the name Pusillina inconspicua ( Gofas & Oliver 2011) due its variability, its discontinuous geographic distribution along the eastern Atlantic from Norway to Angola, including the Mediterranean, and due the different habitats where the species supposedly lives, from sublittoral to bathyal bottoms below 100 m depth, and even in brackish lagoon areas ( Gofas & Oliver 2011). Cordeiro & Ávila (2015) also recorded P. inconspicua in the Azores.

The shells found in the samples studied exhibited a remarkable variability ranging from weak axial ribs, thickened lip, curved columella and closed umbilicus ( Fig. 20a View FIGURE 20 ), to almost smooth surface with incised peripheral lines, thin lip, straightened columella and narrow umbilicus ( Fig. 20b View FIGURE 20 ). The protoconch bears a characteristic spiral microcord close to the suture ( Figs. 20c, g View FIGURE 20 ). Transition between protoconch I and II well delimited ( Figs. 20d–f View FIGURE 20 ).

Shells with soft parts have been found in samples collected between 111–248 m depth on muddy sand bottoms, and one specimen at 920 m. It should be noted that some micromolluscs living in coastal algae could be swept by the currents away from the coast.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Littorinimorpha

Family

Rissoidae

Genus

Pusillina

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