Episiphon sowerbyi (Guilding, 1834)

Caetano, Carlos Henrique Soares, Scarabino, Victor & Absalão, Ricardo Silva, 2006, Scaphopoda (Mollusca) from the Brazilian continental shelf and upper slope (13 º to 21 ºS) with descriptions of two new species of the genus Cadulus Philippi, 1844, Zootaxa 1267, pp. 1-47 : 27-29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.173183

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6258429

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CC6E8784-FFE0-FFA4-FF54-FA00FB7FD1A9

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Episiphon sowerbyi (Guilding, 1834)
status

 

Episiphon sowerbyi (Guilding, 1834) View in CoL

Figs. 58–59 View FIGURES 57 – 73

+ Dentalium sowerbyi Guilding 1834: 35 , pl. 3, fig. 7.

+ Dentalium (Episiphon) sowerbyi: Henderson 1920: 77 ; Maury 1922: 38; Turner 1955: 314; Abbott 1974: 387.

+ Dentalium (Episiphon) sowerbyi sowerbyi: Henderson 1920: 79 , pl. 13, figs. 2, 3, 10.

+ Dentalium (Episiphon) sowerbyi pelliceri Henderson 1920: 80 , pl. 13, figs. 7–9.

+ Episiphon sowerbyi: Scarabino 1985: 200 View in CoL , pl. 73, fig. 1025; 1994: 308, pl. 107, fig. 1513; Redfern 2001: 191, pl. 76, fig. 783; Steiner and Kabat 2001: 444; 2004: 645.

Type material

not located.

Type locality

"in arenosis Oceani Caribaei" (by original designation).

Diagnosis

shell small (to 10 mm), slender, fine, slightly curved, translucent yellow. Close rings at apical portion fade through center of shell. Apical callous conspicuous, usually with short pipe. Oral, apical sections sligthly laterally compressed, lumen wide.

Material examined

IBUFRJ 10967, sta 1f, 1 dd; IBUFRJ 14250, sta C13, 2 dd; IBUFRJ 14251, sta 504, 3 dd; IBUFRJ 14311, sta 52, 1 dd.

Distribution

USA: North Carolina, Florida (Henderson 1920; Turner 1955); gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea: Cuba; Barbados (Henderson 1920; Lewis 1965); Brazil: off Amapá and Canyon of Amazon river (Scarabino 1985, 1994), Bahia and Rio de Janeiro (this study). Living 13 m to 150–200 m (Lewis 1965), shells down to 830 m (present paper).

Remarks

Episiphon sowerbyi differs from Ep. didymum by the presence of transversal rings in shell surface. This ringed sculpture fades at the middle of the shell in our specimens, but entire sculptured specimens were mentioned by Henderson (1920: pl. 13, fig. 10). Figure 59 View FIGURES 57 – 73 shown detail of the ring sculpture under SEM magnification, and we could observe a papillated pattern of sculpture in these rings.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Scaphopoda

Order

Dentaliida

Family

Gadilinidae

Genus

Episiphon

Loc

Episiphon sowerbyi (Guilding, 1834)

Caetano, Carlos Henrique Soares, Scarabino, Victor & Absalão, Ricardo Silva 2006
2006
Loc

Episiphon sowerbyi:

Scarabino 1985: 200
1985
Loc

Dentalium (Episiphon) sowerbyi:

Henderson 1920: 77
1920
Loc

Dentalium (Episiphon) sowerbyi sowerbyi:

Henderson 1920: 79
1920
Loc

Dentalium (Episiphon) sowerbyi pelliceri

Henderson 1920: 80
1920
Loc

Dentalium sowerbyi

Guilding 1834: 35
1834
GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF