Cheungbeia kawamurai (Habe and Kosuge, 1966)

Li, Bao Quan, Kilburn, Richard N. & Li, Xin Zheng, 2010, Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas, Journal of Natural History 44 (11 - 12), pp. 699-740 : 707-708

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Cheungbeia kawamurai (Habe and Kosuge, 1966) View in CoL

( Figure 1G View Figure 1 )

Brachytoma kawamurai Habe and Kosuge, 1966a, p 321 View in CoL , pl. 29, fig. 9; Habe and Kosuge 1966b, p 96, pl. 38, fig. 14; Habe 1975, pl. 2, fig. 9 (holotype); Habe 1977, p 58. Type loc.: Anpin, Formosa [ Taiwan].

Ptychobela kawamurai: Springsteen and Leobrera 1986, p 271 , pl. 77, fig. 9.

Inquisitor kawamurai: Chang and Wu 2000, p 19 View in CoL , fig. 22.

Material examined

SCS. One specimen, CN 54-418 , Shanwei (Guangdong), 11 April 1954 ; 3 spms, CN 55-902 , Xincun, Hainan Island , 24 December 1955 ; 8 spms, CN K47 B-65, 21°30′ N, 112°00′ E, silt, 21 m, 12 July 1959 GoogleMaps ; 6 spms, CN S201 B-28, 22°00′ N, 114°00′ E, silt, 34.5 m, AT, 5 April 1960 GoogleMaps .

Beibu Gulf. One specimen, CN R10 H-13, 20°00′ N, 108°30′ E, sta. 6217, silty mud, 60.5 m, AT, 4 December 1959 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN Q301 - B10 , 18°30′ N, 108°15′ E, silty mud, 34 m, AT, 13 November 1960 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN X48 B-15, 19°45′ N, 109°00′ E, fine sand, 26 m, AT, 3 February 1960 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN Q145-27 , 20°30′ N, 108°30′ E, sandy mud, 48 m, AT, 14 February 1960 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN K286 B-28, 18°15′ N, 108°15′ E, sandy mud, 81 m, AT, 23 October 1960 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN Q128-24 , 20°03′ N, 109°15′ E, silty mud, 26 m, AT, 8 February 1960 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN X50 B-57, 19°45′ N, 108°30′ E, sandy mud, 65.5 m, AT, 4 February 1960 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN Q188 B-107, 20°30′ N, 107°30′ E, muddy sand, 34 m, AT, 18 April 1960 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN K249 B-11, 19°45′ N, 108°45′ E, fine sandy mud, 58 m, AT, 8 May 1960 GoogleMaps ; 2 spms, CN X 190 , 18°30′ N, 107°30′ E, silty mud, 71 m, 10 April 1962 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN K268 B-16, 19°00′ N, 108°15′ E, fine sandy mud, 37 m, AT GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN X176 B-38, 20°50′ N, 108°15′ E, silt, 41 m, AT, 22 January 1962 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN Q151-17 , 20°45′ N, 108°30′ E, mud, 47 m, AT, 15 February 1960 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN X25 B-33, 20°00′ N, 108°30′ E, silt, 67 m, 25 August 1962 GoogleMaps .

Nansha Islands. 1 spm, CN SSVIIIB7-13 , 5°53′ N, 104°44′ E, silty mud, 62 m, AT, 9 June 1990 GoogleMaps .

Measurements

See Table 1.

Distribution

China (Hainan Islands, Beibu Gulf, Nansha Islands) to Vietnam and Philippines.

Remarks

Although Taylor and Wells (1994) synonymised C. kawamurai with Cheungbeia mindanensis ( Smith, 1877) , the latter (holotype, Figure 2H View Figure 2 ) has a smoother appearance, C. kawamurai having coarser spiral sculpture, which forms low but distinct nodules where the spiral cords cross the axial ribs; the subsutural concavity is also deeper in kawamurai . A third member of this complex, Cheungbeia laterculata ( Sowerby 1870) (holotype, Figure 2I View Figure 2 ), differs from both mindanensis and kawamurai in being (typically) strongly striped with dark brown or black, and in its stronger spiral ridges (which cross the intervals between the axial ribs), whose interstices bear a distinct spiral microsculpture, lacking in the other two species; C. laterculata also attains a larger size and has a more prominently alate outer lip.

References

Chang CK, Wu WL. 2000. The Taiwan inquisitors (Gastropoda: Turridae). Bull Malacol Taiwan. 24: 13 - 26.

Habe T, Kosuge S. 1966 a. Shells of the world in colour. Vol. II. The tropical Pacific. Hoikusha: Osaka. p. 104, pls 1 - 68.

Habe T, Kosuge S. 1966 b. New genera and species of tropical and subtropical Pacific molluscs. Venus 24: 312 - 341, pl. 29.

Habe T. 1975. Publication to commemorate [sic] 77 th anniversary of the birth of Mr Ryosuke Kawamura. Illustration of shells described by and dedicated to Mr R. Kawamura. Tokyo.

Habe T. 1977. Catalogue of molluscan taxa described by Tadashige Habe during 1939 - 1975, with illustrations of hitherto unfigured species. Compiled by T. Inaba and K. Otaka. Tokyo: Okinaebisu-no-kai.

Smith EA. 1877. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Ann Mag Nat Hist. 4 (19): 488 - 501.

Sowerby GB. 1870. Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells. Proc Zool Soc Lond. 1870: 249 - 259, pls 21 - 22.

Springsteen EJ, Leobrera FM. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila: Carfel Shell Museum.

Taylor JD, Wells FE. 1994. A revision of the crassispirine gastropods from Hong Kong (Gastropoda: Turridae). p. 101 - 116. The malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China 3. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 504 pp.

Figures

Figure 1. Species of subfamily Crassispirinae. (A) Aguilaria subochracea (SCS, CN 54–779); (B) lectotype (Taylor and Wells, 1994, as “Holotype”) of Pleurotoma (Drillia) subochracea, BMNH 1988065, China Seas (probably); 38.8 × 12.3 mm; (C, D) Inquisitor incerta (SCS, CN 54–671); (E) syntype of Pleurotoma (Drillia) incerta, BMNH 1854.4.10.59, New Guinea; 25.0 × 7.9 mm; (F, G) Inquisitor plurivaricis (holotype, ECS, CN 553B–35, 114 m, 41.5 × 12.5 mm); (H) Inquisitor latifasciata (ECS, CN 57–658); (I) Inquisitor aesopus (Beibu Gulf, CN Q21B-22); (J) lectotype of Drillia aesopus, ZMAN (des. Kilburn, 1988), Kwandang Bay, west of entrance, north coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, 72 m, fine sand with mud; 36.5 × 9.1 mm.

Figure 2. Species of subfamily Crassispirinae. (A) Funa jeffreysii (Beibu Gulf, CN N177B- 47); (B) Funa latisinuata (SCS, CN Q119B-7-1); (C) Inquisitor japonicus (Yellow Sea, CN V462B-24-1); (D) Inquisitor nudivaricosus (ECS, CN V527B-35-1); (E) Inquisitor varicosus (Hainan Island); (F) Cheungbeia laterculata (Nansha Islands, SSBV27-14); (G) Cheungbeia kawamurai (CSC, CN 55-902-1); (H) Cheungbeia mindanensis (holotype,BM2); (I) holotype of Pleurotoma laterculata, BMNH 1874.12.11.293, Lombe Taylor collection, China Seas; length 30 mm; (J) Turridrupa prestoni (Nansha Islands, CN SSVIIIB8-16).