Pelseneeria striata Bouchet & Warén, 1986

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 : 526

Pelseneeria striata Bouchet & Warén, 1986 ( Fig. 9 G-I)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 sh., DW130.

REMARK

Originally described from a depth of 275 m off the Azores, ectoparasitic on the sea urchin Trigonocidaris albida (A. Agassiz) . New to Spanish waters.

Figures

FIG. 9. — A, Mucronalia mammillata Dall, 1927, holotype (sh.) USNM 108040 (height 3.7 mm); B, C, Mucronalia suavis Dall, 1927, holotype (sh.) USNM 108392 (height 4.75 mm); D-F, Mucronalia pinguicula n. sp.: D, E, holotype (sh.) from DW130 (height 3.3 mm); F, protoconch and early teleoconch whorls of the holotype, the arrows points to the suture of the first teleoconch whorl, between which the false suture can be seen by transparency; G, H, I, Pelseneeria striata Bouchet & Warén,1986: G, H, shell from DW130 (height 1.8 mm), new to Spanish waters; I, scanning electron micrograph of the microsculpture of the same specimen.Scale bars: F, 500 µm; I, 100 µm. A-C, reproduced with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (https://www.nmnh.si.edu/).