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A new deep-sea species of Mitromorpha (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Conidae) off Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2009

Silvio Felipe Barbosa Lima*
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Malacologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, Bolsista (CAPES)
José Carlos Nascimento Barros
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Malacologia, Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Brazil
Jonata de A. Francisco
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Malacologia, Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Brazil
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: S.F.B. Lima, Laboratório de Malacologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, Bolsista (CAPES) email: [email protected]

Abstract

A new species of Conidae is described from Brazilian waters. Mitromorpha santosi sp. nov. from the Continental Slope off the state of Rio Grande do Norte (north-east Brazil: 04°50′60″–04°51′40″s, 35°06′01″–35°06′46″W) is compared with M. biplicata (western Atlantic), M. usta (eastern Atlantic), M. dalli (north-eastern Atlantic), M. popeae (West Indies), M. undulate (West Indies) and two unnamed Brazilian species being diagnosed as possessing strong axial ribs, second spiral cord on the body whorl more pronounced and yellowish-brown spiral bands. In addition, a lectotype for Mitromorpha undulata, is designated herein.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2009

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