Tindaria salaria Dall 1908
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Nuculanida
Tindariidae
Tindaria
Tindaria salaria

description: <i>Tindaria salaria</i> Dall, 1908 Figures 3 F–H <i>Tindaria salaria</i> Dall, 1908: p. 387. <i>Tindaria salaria</i> Dall, 1908 — Villarroel &amp; Stuardo, 1998: p. 117. <b>Type Material.</b> The type material USNM 110695, composed of three single valves (03/06: 5.2 mm; 01/04: 4.9 mm; 02/05: 3.5 mm) and two additional small fragments. <b>Type Locality.</b> Dredged off Salas y Gómez Island, 26°30’S, longitude 105°45’W, by the U.S. S. Albatross in 1904, at Station 4693, in gravel at 2089 m. <b>Original description.</b> “Shell pale cream color or white, nuculiform, smooth on the beaks, near the dorsal slopes and ends of the shell; basally concentrically striated, polished; the shell is very nearly the shape of a small <i>Nucula proxima</i> Say; ligament small, amphidetic, mostly posterior; resilium obsolete or none; there is no trace of a chondrophore; hinge line arched, with no lunule, the escutcheon narrow, long, feebly defined; interior white, porcellaneous, polished; pallial line not sinuated, margins entire; hinge with seven to eight anterior and eighteen to twenty posterior hinge teeth, small below the beaks, but forming an apparently continuous arch with no central gap.” (Dall 1908: 387.) <b>Remarks.</b> Although described over one hundred years ago, this is the first time <i>Tindaria salaria</i> has ever been illustrated (Figs. 3 F–H). The specimens resemble the genus <i>Tindaria</i> by lacking a pallial sinus, and by having a solid, ovate and rather inflated shape with ventrally marked commarginal sculpture, as well as by missing resilium and uninterrupted dentition (Fig. 3 G). Other than noted by Dall (1908: 387), no trace of a resilium was detected and the external ligament condition is perceived as opisthodetic, not amphidetic (Fig. 3 H). This further supports the placement within <i>Tindaria</i> along with its broad and strong hinge, which is characteristic of the genus. No other eastern Pacific tindariid comes close to this species, notably not <i>T. compressa</i> Dall, 1908, or <i>T. kennerlyi</i> (Dall, 1908), (Coan <i>et al</i>. 2000: pl. 16), nor the doubtful <i>Tindaria thea</i> Dall, 1908, from Peru with a marked distinct shape or the many other tindariids illustrated in Knudsen (1970). Comparable in shape is <i>T. antarctica</i> Thiele &amp; Jaeckel, 1931, but this species lives in much deeper water, grows to twice the size and has a much narrower hinge line. Thus to date, <i>T. salaria</i> is perceived as correctly placed and as an endemic species. <b>Distribution.</b> At present <i>Tindaria salaria</i> is only known from the type locality, off Salas y Gómez Island— <b>E1</b>.
description: Published as part of <i>Raines, Bret &amp; Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217</i> on pages 11-12
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