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Issue: Vol. 4363 No. 4: 13 Dec. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-12-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.4.13
Page range: 592–596
Abstract views: 82
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First columbellid species (Gastropoda: Buccinoidea) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, discovered in Okinawa Trough, Japan

Department of Subsurface Geobiological Analysis and Research (D-SUGAR), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka 237–0061, Japan
Department of Marine Biodiversity Research (BIO-DIVE), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2–15 Natsushima, Yokosuka 237–0061, Japan
Universidad de Atacama, Copayapu 485, Copiapó, Región de Atacama, Chile
Mollusca Gastropoda Buccinoidea

Abstract

The molluscan diversity of deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems in Japan has been in general well documented with about 80 described species, of which over half are gastropods (Sasaki et al. 2005; Fujikura et al. 2012; Sasaki et al. 2016). Recently, however, a number of novel hydrothermal vent sites were discovered in the area using multibeam echo-sounding (Nakamura et al. 2015), providing opportunities for new discoveries. As a part of ongoing studies documenting the biodiversity of such sites, we present the first record of Columbellidae from hydrothermal vents, with a new species recovered from Natsu and Aki sites, in the Iheya North hydrothermal field (for map and background on the vent field see Nakamura et al. 2015).

 

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