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Issue: Vol. 56 No. 1: 25 Jul. 2002
Type: Article
Published: 2002-07-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.56.1.1
Page range: 1–7
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 3

Three new species of Barleeidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Rissooidea) from Brazil

Departamento de Biologia Animal e Vegetal, Inst. Biologia, UERJ, rua São Francisco Xavier 524, Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 20550-900 Departamento de Zoologia. Inst. Biologia, C.C.S., UFRJ, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, 21941- 590
Mollusca Caelatura Protobarleeia Barleeidae sea mount South Western Atlantic Brazil

Abstract

Three new species of the Barleedidae are described from Brazilian waters. Caelatura tigrina n.sp. from Davis Seamount (20°39’ S / 034°43’ W) is diagnosed by 5 narrow well-spaced spiral cordlets in each whorl and its golden-brown color with white axial flames. Caelatura especulabunda n.sp from Dogaressa Seamount (20°51’ S / 033°45’ W) is diagnosed by its shell oval-pupoid with slightly convex whorls and 9-10 close, thick, spiral cordlets. Protobarleeia pyrrocincta n.sp. from Abrolhos Bank (about 19° S, 38° W), the first report of the genus from South Western Atlantic, is diagnosed by its reddish belts.

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