Coralliophila curta G.B. Sowerby, 1894

Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 481-586 : 509-511

Coralliophila curta G.B. Sowerby [third of the name], 1894

Figs 34, 158, 208

Coralliophila curta G.B. Sowerby [third of the name], 1894: 42, pl. 4, fig. 4.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype BMNH 1890.9 .25.23, figured by Smriglio & Mariottini (2000: 13, figs 9, 10).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Mauritius.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— New Caledonia proper. EXPÉDITION 165°16.3’E, intertidal, 1 dd; stn 1273, 20°50.4’S, 165°22.8’E, 20 MONTROUZIER: stn 1245, Secteur de Touho , 20°45.2’S, m, 1 dd; stn 1316, Secteur de Koumac, 20°40’S, 164°11.12’E ,

FIGS 28-40. Teleoconchs of Coralliophila s.l. 28, C. clathrata (A. Adams, 1854, LIFOU 2000 stn 1420, H 8.2 mm. 29, C. squamosissima ( Smith, 1876) , LAGON stn 280, H 14.7 mm. 30-32, C. monodonta (Blainville, 1832) ; 30, LIFOU 2000 stn 1424, H 15.2 mm; 31, lectotype MNHN 0713,H 13.7 mm; 32, LIFOU 2000 stn 1451. 33, C. carnosa Kosuge,1986 , MUSORSTOM 6 stn DW 473,H 11.4 mm. 34, C. curta G.B. Sowerby [third of the name],1894, LIFOU 2000 stn 1422,H 6.2 mm. 35, 36, C. solutistoma Kuroda & Shikama in Shikama, 1966; 35, MUSORSTOM 6 stn CP 400, H 31.4 mm; 36, MUSORSTOM 8 stn CP 1102, H 20.6 mm. 37, 38, C. mitraeforma Kosuge, 1985 , VOLSMAR stn DW 41, H 13.9 mm. 39, C. roseocephala Kosuge, 1986 , SMIB 8 stn DW 190, H 6.4 mm. 40, C. suduirauti Smriglio & Mariottini, 2002 , MUSORSTOM 8 stn DW 1042, H 8.5 mm. Scale bar 5 mm (31), 500 Μm (32).

12 m, 1 dd; stn 1318, 20°41.4’S, 164°14.8’E, 20-30 m, 1 dd; stn stn 1429, 20°47.5’S, 167°07.1’E, 8-18 m, 2 dd (Fig. 158); stn 1319, 20°44.7’S, 164°15.5’E, 20 m, 2 dd. 1435, 20°55.2’S, 167°00.7’E, 5-30 m, 3 dd; stn 1441, 20°46.4’S, Loyalty Islands. Lifou. LIFOU 2000: stn 1410, 20°5678’S, 167°02.2’E, 20 m, 1 dd.; stn 1448, 20°45.8’S, 167°01.65’E, 20 167°03.1’E, 2-4 m, 1 dd; stn 1422, 20°47.1’S, 167°07.4’E, 4 m, m, 1 dd; stn 1457, 20°46.8’S, 167°02.75’E, 5-10 m, 5 dd (Fig. 1 dd (Fig. 34); stn 1425, 20°46.8’S, 167°07.2’E, 4-5 m, 3 dd; 208).

DISTRIBUTION. — Indian Ocean (G.B. Sowerby [third of the name], 1894). Pacific Ocean: from southern Japan to the Philippines (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985), “coral reef in intertidal zone to 20 m deep” (Tsuchiya 2000). New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands, empty shells intertidal to 20 m. Southward range extension to the southwest Pacific .

REMARKS. — Protoconch of 2.6 conical whorls, 550 Μm high, 500 Μm wide at the base. Protoconch-I of about 1 whorl, eroded in the available material. Protoconch-II of about 1.6 whorls, with 2 spiral keels (the abapical starting early on the second protoconch whorl, the adapical starting at the end of the second whorl), sculptured with a series of subsutural prosocline threads and a series of oblong tubercules over each keel.