Babelomurex lischkeanus (Dunker, 1882)

Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 481-586 : 537-538

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5491442
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scientific name	Babelomurex lischkeanus (Dunker, 1882)
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Babelomurex lischkeanus (Dunker, 1882) View in CoL

Figs 84, 178

Rapana lischkeana Dunker, 1882: 43 View in CoL , pl. 1, figs 1, 2; pl. 13, figs 26, 27.

Synonyms:

Tolema peregrina Powell, 1947: 170-171 View in CoL , pl. 19, fig. 3.

Tolema australis Laseron, 1955: 72 View in CoL , pl. 1, figs 1, 2.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Rapana lischkeana : holotype ZMB (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985: pl. 27, fig. 8) . — Tolema peregrina : holotype AIM AK71138 View Materials (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985: pl. 27, fig. 23) . — Tolema australis : holotype AMS C103333 (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985: pl. 47, fig. 3) .

TYPE LOCALITY. — R. lischkeana: Seto Inland Sea , Japan. — T. peregrina : “trawled on Atrina beds near the entrance to Hauraki Gulf [NE New Zealand], probably in about 20-25 fathoms [37-46 m]” . — T. australis : off Sydney, New South Wales , 201 m.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Loyalty Ridge. MUSORSTOM 6: stn 443-460 m, 1 dd.

DW 446, 20°54’S, 167°19’E, 360 m, 1 dd (dd juv); stn CP 464, Tonga. BORDAU 2: stn DW 1524, 21°17’S, 175°00’W, 351-354 21°02’S, 167°32’E, 430 m, 1 dd; stn CP 467, 21°05’S, 167°32’E, m, 1 dd; stn DW 1543, 21°16’S, 175°18’W, 427-436 m, 1 dd 575 m, 3 dd (Fig. 84). (Fig. 178); stn DW 1549, 20°38’S, 175°00’W, 500 m, 1 dd; stn Norfolk Ridge. NORFOLK 1: stn DW 1663, 23°40’S, 167°42’E, DW 1585, 18°33’S, 173°57’W, 578 m, 1 dd.

DISTRIBUTION. — Southern Atlantic Ocean, off Namibia ( Kosuge 1986b). Indian Ocean: from Réunion to Indonesia ( Kosuge 1986b). Pacific Ocean: from Boso Peninsula ( Japan) southward to east China Sea, Philippines, Australia, on “coarse sand and gravel bottoms in 50-200 m deep” (Tsuchiya 2000), and New Zealand, “subtidal to 400 fms” [732 m] ( Cernohorsky 1978). From Loyalty Ridge, Norfolk Ridge and Tonga, empty shells only in 354- 578 m.

REMARKS. — Protoconch of 2.8 conical whorls, 970 Μm high, 910 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 similar threads over each keel; a diffuse granulation is present in the interspaces.