Babelomurex kawanishii ( Kosuge, 1979 )

Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 481-586 : 543-544

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Babelomurex kawanishii ( Kosuge, 1979) View in CoL

Figs 96, 183

Latiaxis (Echinolatiaxis) kawanishii Kosuge, 1979: 4 View in CoL , pl. 2, figs 4-6.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype IMT 79-2 [not seen], figured by Kosuge & Suzuki (1985: pl. 17, fig. 13, pl. 34, fig. 2), “transferred to the collection of Mr Masaji Suzuki” ( Kosuge 1992). Higo et al. (2001: 68, G2460) cited SSSM

as the repository for the same figured specimen.

TYPE LOCALITY. — South China Sea (near Paracel Islands, about 200 m depth) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Norfolk Ridge. SMIB 3: stn DW 8, 235-252 m, 2 dd; stn DW 157, 24°46’S, 168°08’E, 251-255 m, 24°45’S, 168°08’E, 233 m, 3 dd; stn DW 10, 24°42’S, 168°07’E, 2 dd; stn DW 159, 24°46’S, 168°08’E, 241-245 m, 1dd GoogleMaps .

235 m, 1 dd. — SMIB 5: stn DW 76, 23°41’S, 168°0l’E, 280 m, Loyalty Ridge. MUSORSTOM 6: stn DW 475, 21°09’S, 167°55’E, 1 dd, Figs 96, 183). — SMIB 8: stn DW 154, 24°45’S, 168°08’E, 236 m, 1 dd.

DISTRIBUTION. — West Pacific : Japan and the China Sea (Tsuchiya 2000: 411), “ 100-200 m, rocks” (Higo et al. 1999: 220). Here extended to the southwest Pacific, Norfolk Ridge and Loyalty Ridge, empty shells in 233-280 m.

REMARKS. — Protoconch of 2.8 conical whorls, 510 Μm high, 630 Μm wide at the base. Protoconch-I of about 1 whorl, sculptured with pustules over the entire surface. Protoconch-II of about 1.8 whorls, with 2 spiral keels, and sculptured with a series of subsutural threads and a series of nodulose threads over each keel; a diffuse granulation is present in the interspaces.