Age variability in the shell of Scaphander punctostriatus (Mighels et C.B. Adams, 1842) (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) as revealed by specimens from the Russian part of the Barents Sea

E.M. Chaban & I.O. Nekhaev

Abstract. The shell sculpture and morphology of the radula and gizzard plates of juvenile specimens of Scaphander punctostriatus from the Russian part of the Barents Sea is described for the first time and compared with those of adult specimens; the shell morphology is discussed and illustrated for the first time.

Key words: shell sculpture, morphology, ontogeny, Cephalaspidea, Scaphandridae, Scaphander

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2013, 22(2): 165-171 ▪ Published in print 25 December 2013

https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2013.22.2.165 ▪ Open full article

References

Chaban Е.М. 2001. Subclass Opisthobranchia: Orders Cephalaspidea, Anaspidea, Acochlidiida, Sacoglossa, Thecosomata, Gymnosomata. In: Sirenko B.I. (Ed.) List of species of free-living invertebrates of Eurasian Arctic seas and adjacent deep waters. Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas, 51(59): 108–109.

Denisenko S.G., Anisimova N.A., Denisenko N.V., Zhukov E.I., Polyanskyi V.A. & Semenov V.N. 1993. Distribution and structural-funktional organisation of the zoobenthos. In: Hydrobiological studies of the Baidaratskaya Bay of the Kara Sea in 1991–1992. Apatity: 30–49. (In Russian).

Derjugin K.M. 1915. Fauna of the Kola Bay and conditions of its existence. Mémoires de l’Acadèmie Impériale des Sciences, ser. 8, classe physico-mathématique, 34(1): 1–929. (In Russian).

Eilertsen M.H. & Malaquias M.A. 2013a. Systematic revision of the genus Scaphander (Gastropoda, Cephalaspidea) in the Atlantic Ocean, with a molecular phylogenetic hypothesis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 167: 389–429. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12013

Eilertsen M.H. & Malaquias M.A. 2013b. Unique digestive system, trophic specialization, and diversification in the deep-sea gastropods of the genus Scaphander. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 109(3): 515–525. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12069

Filatova Z.A. & Zatsepin V.I. 1948. Classis Gastropoda. In: Gaevskaya N.S. (Ed.) Guidebook to fauna and flora of the northern seas of USSR. Sovetskaya Nauka: 352–401. (In Russian).

Friele H & Grieg J.A. 1901. Den Norske Nordhavs-Expedition 1876–1878. XXVIII. Zoologi. Mollusca III. Christiania. Grøndahl & Søns Bogtrykkeri. 129 p.

Golikov A.N. 1987. Classis Gastropoda (part.). In: Starobogatov Ya.I., Naumov A.D. (Eds.) Molluscs of the White Sea. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavaemye ZIN AN SSSR, 151: 41–149. (In Russian).

Golikov A.N. 1995. Shell-bearing gastropods of the Arctic. Moscow: Colus. 108 p.

Herzenstein S.M. 1885. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fauna der Murmanküste und des Weissen Meeres. Trudy SPb Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei, 16(2): 635–814.

Jeffreys J.G. 1859. Further gleanings in British shells. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3, 3: 106–120.

Jeffreys J.G. 1883. On the mollusca procured during the cruise of H.M.S. “Triton” between the Hebrides and Faroes in 1882. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1883: 389–399.

Lemche H. 1948. Northern and Arctic tectibranch gastropods. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Skrifter, 5(3): 1–136.

Lubin P.A. 2003. Fauna and ecology of shell-bearing Gastropoda of Kara Sea. Fauna of the invertebrates of the Barents, the Kara and the White Seas: 30–194. Apatity. (In Russian).

Mighels J.W. & Adams C.B. 1842. Descriptions of twenty-four species of the shells of New England. Boston Journal of Natural History, 4(1): 37–54.

Norman A.M. 1890. Revision of British Mollusca. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 6: 60–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008693994

Ohnheiser L.T. & Malaquias M.A. 2013. Systematic revision of the gastropod family Philinidae (Mollusca: Cephalaspidea) in the north-east Atlantic Ocean with emphasis on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 167: 273–326. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12000

Sirenko B.I. 1993. Shell of molluscs in the ontogeny: its significance for taxonomy and the mistakes in classification. Ruthenica, 3(2): 137–139. (In Russian).

Volume, Year: