Last snails standing since the Early Pleistocene, a tale of Calliostomatidae (Gastropoda) living in deep-water coral habitats in the north-eastern Atlantic
| Autor: | Marc S. S. Lavaleye, André Freiwald, Leon Hoffman, Lydia Beuck, Bart Van Heugten |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Systematics
Early Pleistocene Pleistocene Coral Gastropoda Snails Calliostoma Deep-water coral Mediterranean sea Calliostomatidae Mediterranean Sea Animalia Animals Atlantic Ocean Ecosystem Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Taxonomy biology Ecology Mauritania Water Biodiversity Anthozoa biology.organism_classification Italy Mollusca Animal Science and Zoology Mollusca [Molluscs] |
| Zdroj: | Zootaxa. 4613 |
| ISSN: | 1175-5334 1175-5326 |
| Popis: | Three species in the gastropod genus Calliostoma are confirmed as living in Deep-Water Coral (DWC) habitats in the NE Atlantic Ocean: Calliostoma bullatum (Philippi, 1844), C. maurolici (Seguenza, 1876) and C. leptophyma Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896. Up to now, C. bullatum was only known as fossil from Early to Mid-Pleistocene outcrops in DWC-related habitats in southern Italy; our study confirmed its living presence in DWC off Mauritania. A discussion is provided on the distribution of DWC-related calliostomatids in the NE Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea from the Pleistocene to the present. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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