Coralliophila cf. ovoidea (Kosuge, 1985)

Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 481-586 : 504

Coralliophila cf. ovoidea (Kosuge, 1985)

Figs 20, 155

Mipus ovoidea [sic] Kosuge, 1985b: 50, pl. 19, figs 1-3.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Mipus ovoidea : holotype IMT 85-16 [not seen], figured by Kosuge & Suzuki (1985, pl. 25, fig. 19) .

TYPE LOCALITY. — M. ovoidea : Bohol Island, Philippines .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Coral Sea. MUSORSTOM 5: stn 560 m, 1 lv (Fig. 20) . — SMIB 5: stn DW 97, 23°0l’S, 168°18’E, 302, Banc Nova , 22°10’S, 159°23’E, 345-360 m, 1 dd. 300 m, 1 dd . — NORFOLK 1, stn CP 1682, Banc Kaimon-Maru , North of New Caledonia. SMIB 6: stn DW 130, Grand Passage, 24°43’S, 168°10’E, 331-379 m, 1 lv; stn CP 1683, 24°43’S, 19°05’S, 163°21’E, 225-230 m, 1 dd. 168°08’E, 248-272 m, 1 lv .

New Caledonia proper. BATHUS 2: stn DW 726, 22°47’S, Vanuatu. MUSORSTOM 8: stn DW 964, 20°20’S, 169°49’E, 167°29’E, 241-260, 1dd (Fig. 155). 360-408 m, 1 dd.

Norfolk Ridge. SMIB 10: stn DW 209, 24°49’S, 168°09’E, 329- Fiji. BORDAU 1: stn DW 1418, 16°28’S, 178°56’W, 367 m, 1 dd.

DISTRIBUTION. — Pacific: Tosa Bay ( Japan), the South China Sea and the Philippines (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985; Tsuchiya 2000). The present material, from the Coral Sea, New Caledonia, Norfolk Ridge, Vanuatu and Fiji, live in 272-331 m, empty shells down to 367 m.

REMARKS. — Protoconch of 3 whorls, 630 Μm high and 720 Μm wide at the base. Protoconch-I of 0.9 whorls, sculptured with pustules over the entire surface. Protoconch-II of about 2.1 whorls, with 2 spiral keels, sculptured with a series of subsutural nodulose threads and a series of similar threads over each keel. A diffuse granulation is present in the interspaces. Sinusigera lip evident at the end of the protoconch.