Mulinia cleryana (d'Orbigny, 1846)

Costa, Dimitri de Araujo, Dolbeth, Marina, Prata, Jessica, da Silva, Francisco de Assis, da Silva, Geuba Maria Bernardo, de Freitas, Paulo Ragner Silva, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey, de Lima, Silvio Felipe Barbosa, Massei, Karina & de Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva, 2021, Marine invertebrates associated with rhodoliths / maerl beds from northeast Brazil (State of Paraiba), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 62736-62736 : 62736

Mulinia cleryana (d'Orbigny, 1846)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: (CZAP-231), (CZAP-166), (CZAP-214); recordedBy: G. da Silva, D. Costa; individualCount: (1), (1), (3); Location: locality: Miramar, Seixas and Maceió Beaches; verbatimDepth: (4.0 m), (1.5 m), (1.5 m)

Distribution

Gulf of Mexico to all the Brazilian coast ( Gernet et al. 2018, MolluscaBase 2020a, Signorelli 2019).

Distribution in Paraíba: Paraíba River Estuary ( Lima et al. 2017), Miramar, Seixas and Maceió Beaches (New records).

Notes

Found inside the rhodoliths.

Diagnosis

( Signorelli 2019): Shells trigonal, inflated, umbos placed about half shell length, inflated and prosogyrate; external surface smooth; postero-dorsal area defined by a distinct keel-like carina; anterior and posterior ends low and well defined (Fig. 8 a). Ventral margin sinuous; right hinge with two anterior and two posterior lateral teeth, being the ventral more elongated, two divergent and unfused cardinal teeth; left hinge with the usual V-shaped cardinal tooth, flanked by an accessory lamella, one anterior and one posterior lateral tooth complete the hinge; anterior adductor muscle scars semi-elliptical, posterior oval; pallial sinus low and V-shaped.