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On the presence of the deep-water mytilid Gigantidas horikoshii (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) in Taiwanese waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2022

Claudio Mellado
Affiliation:
Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina, Campus Isla Teja, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
Nicolás Zambrano
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Toxicología Acuática, Departamento de Oceanografía, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Barrio Universitario s/n, Concepción, Chile Departamento de Zoología, Veterinaria Libre (VetLibre), Colo Colo 222, Concepción, Chile
Juan Antonio Aliaga
Affiliation:
Departamento de Química, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, José Pedro Alessandri 1242, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile
Luis Ballesteros
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ingeniería, Instituto de Ciencias Químicas Aplicadas, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, El Llano Subercaseaux 2801, San Miguel, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Juan Francisco Araya*
Affiliation:
Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
*
Author for correspondence: Juan Francisco Araya, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We present the first record of the very large deep-sea mytilid Gigantidas horikoshii Hashimoto & Yamane, 2005 outside of its type distribution, based on a juvenile specimen collected by fishermen at the Tashi fishing grounds east of Taiwan. This record extends the distribution of the species in about 20 latitudinal degrees to the west (about 1916 km), and it is the first record for this species outside the Izu-Ogasawara Island-arc, southern Japan, representing the westernmost geographic limit of this species and the first record in Taiwanese waters.

Type
Marine Record
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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