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Issue: Vol. 5523 No. 2: 15 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5523.2.6
Page range: 231-253
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New and rare bivalve species for the fauna of the Kuril Islands (northwestern Pacific Ocean): A study of materials collected over 70 years of expeditions (from 1949 to 2019)

A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology; Far Eastern Branch; Russian Academy of Sciences; Palchevskogo Street; 17; Vladivostok 690041; Russia
A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology; Far Eastern Branch; Russian Academy of Sciences; Palchevskogo Street; 17; Vladivostok 690041; Russia
Mollusca Bivalvia Northwest Pacific range extension Protobranchia Pteriomorphia Heterodonta

Abstract

Our study of bivalves collected during 24 marine expeditions between 1949 and 2019 at depths of 0–3,000 m off the Kuril Islands resulted in finding 16 new and 11 rare species to the fauna of this region. Their geographical and vertical distribution ranges have been significantly expanded. Species richness within the studied depths is thereby increased by 10%. Of the 27 species examined, three (Huxleyia pentadonta, Limopsis oliveri, and Samacar kurilensis) are endemic to the Kuril Islands. Photographs of shells and revised distribution data, as inferred from this study, are provided for all 27 species.

 

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