Gadilina pachypleura ( Boissevain, 1906 )

Scarabino, Victor, 2008, New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 215-268 : 238

Gadilina pachypleura ( Boissevain, 1906)

Gadilina pachypleura - Scarabino 1995: 285. No material cited from New Caledonia.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Two syntypes ZMA 3.06.063 (2), Banda Sea, Siboga stn 208, 5°39’S 122°12’E, 1886 m; 1 syntype ZMA 3.06.064 (1), Arafura Sea, Siboga stn 271, 5°46.7’S, 134°0’E, 1788 m.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Not restricted to one or other of the localities of the two syntypes (above).

NEW MATERIAL EXAMINED. — New Caledonia proper. BATHUS 4: stn CP 948, Passe de Hienghène , 20°33’S, 164°57’E, 533- 610 m, 1 dd; stn CP 949, 20°32’S, 164°56’E, 616-690 m, 1 dd .

DISTRIBUTION. — Global distribution: Indonesia to New Caledonia (first record), shells in 610-1886 m. Distribution in the New Caledonian region: east coast, shells in 610-616 m.