Trophonopsis barvicensis (Johnston, 1825)

Ortega, José Rafael & Gofas, Serge, 2019, The unknown bathyal of the Canaries: new species and new records of deep-sea Mollusca, Zoosystema 41 (26), pp. 513-551 : 530

Trophonopsis barvicensis (Johnston, 1825) ( Fig. 13 B-D)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 sh., DW128; 12 sh., DW130.

REMARKS

The occurrence of this species, originally described from British waters, had so far been ascertained as far south as the Alboran Sea ( Gofas et al. 2014). New record for the Canaries.

Figures

FIG. 13. — A, Babelomurex atlantidis Oliverio & Gofas, 2006, shell from DW133 (20.1 mm); new to Spanish waters; B, C, Trophonopsis barvicensis (Johnston, 1825), shell from DW130 (height 9.7 mm); new to the Canaries; D, Trophonopsis barvicensis, scanning electron micrograph of the protoconch of another shell, same locality. Scale bar: 500 µm, arrow points to the protoconch-teleoconch limit.