Biology:Lophopleurella
Lophopleurella capensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Oxynoidae.
Lophopleurella capensis is the only species in the genus Lophopleurella.[1]
The specific name "capensis" is from the Latin language, meaning "of the Cape", i.e. from the Cape Province".
Distribution
The type locality for this species is South Africa.[1]
Description
This species was originally described under name Lobiger (Lophopleura) capensis by German malacologist Johannes Thiele in 1912 as a result of the Gauss Expedition (1901–1903), that was the first German expedition to Antarctica.
Johannes Thiele described it very briefly stating, that it "has wing-shaped attachments on sides of the body and very small wing on its shell".[2]
German malacologist Adolf Michael Zilch established a new genus Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956[3] for this species, because the name Lophopleura Ragonot, 1891[4] had already been occupied and used for a genus of lepidopterans from family Pyralidae. Zilch only created the new generic name without a review of the genus.[3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" . Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
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