Species Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pleurotoma (Surcula) lepta Watson, R.B. 1881. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Parts VIII-X. Pleurotomidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15: 388-475 [391] [junior homonym; of Pleurotoma lepta Edwards, 1861].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH (The original description gives the collection locality as "Challanger Station 157. "Southern Ocean. SE of Australia. 1950 fathoms 55°55'S 108°35'E". However, that lat. and long. is not SE of Australia. Hedley (1922) amended that latitude to 53.55 S, and gave the locality (with a lack of accuracy not typical of Hedley) as "south-west Australia", when he meant "south-west of Australia").

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sysoev, A.V. & Kantor, Yu.I. 1987. Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: species composition, systematics, and functional morphology of the digestive system. Veliger 30: 105–126

Generic Combinations

• Marshallena lepta (Watson, 1881). —
  Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324 [371, pl. 281, fig. 3]
• Aforia lepta (Watson, 1881). —
  Sysoev, A.V. & Kantor, Yu.I. 1987. Deep-sea gastropods of the genus Aforia (Turridae) of the Pacific: species composition, systematics, and functional morphology of the digestive system. Veliger 30: 105–126

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

Ecological Descriptors

Bathyal, continental rise, marine.

General References

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [254]

Powell, A.W.B. 1969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(10): 207–415, pls 188–324 [371, pl. 281, fig. 3]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [554]

Watson, R.B. 1886. Report on the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 15(42): 756 pp., 50 pls [288]

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