Fustiaria vagina Scarabino 1995
Creators: name: Scarabino, Victor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Scaphopoda
Dentaliida
Fustiariidae
Fustiaria
Fustiaria vagina

description: <i>Fustiaria vagina</i> Scarabino, 1995 <i>Fustiaria vagina</i> Scarabino, 1995: 281, figs 71h, 87, 8i. Material cited: 8 lots (13 spms) from Chesterfield Plateau, New Caledonia, Loyalty Ridge, live in 630- 675 m. NEW MATERIAL EXAMINED. — <b>North of New Caledonia</b>. BATHUS 4: stn DW 914, Grand Passage, 18°48’S, 163°15’E, 600-616 m, 1 dd; stn DW 915, 18°51’S, 163°17’E, 575-580 m, 1 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — Chesterfield Plateau, north of New Caledonia, Norfolk and Loyalty Ridges, live in 630-675 m, shells in 290-820 m (Scarabino, 1995). GENERAL REMARKS. — Four <i>Fustiaria</i> species with a long and straigth slit on the ventral side occur in the region: <i>F. mariae</i> (described above), <i>F. nipponica</i> (Yokoyama, 1922), <i>F. caesura</i> (Colman, 1958) and <i>F. steineri</i> (described above). <i>Fustiaria mariae</i> is known from the Philippines, New Caledonia and Vanuatu. <i>Fustiaria nipponica</i>, fragile and translucent, has a wide western Pacific distribution, from Japan to New Caledonia, from the littoral to 200 m (Habe 1964), live in 0-71 m (Scarabino 1995). It also occurs in northwestern Australia, reported as <i>F. stenoschizum</i> by Lamprell &amp; Healy (1998). <i>Fustiaria steineri</i> is known from New Caledonia (Atoll de Surprise and Norfolk Ridge) and Vanuatu, live in 613-616 m, shells from 400 m. <i>Fustiaria caesura</i>, described from southeastern Australia, seems to have a restricted distribution. Lamprell &amp; Healy (1998) preferred to follow Boissevain (1906) and used the name <i>F. stenoschizum</i> (Pilsbry &amp; Sharp, 1897) (syntypes ANSP 71081) for northern Australian specimens. However, <i>F. stenoschizum</i> is a common species ranging from the Caribbean south to Espiritu Santo (Brasil), live in 60-120 m (Scarabino pers. obs.). Although there are few shell characters that distinguish fustiariids, I am reluctant to accept such a discontinuous distribution in two oceans for a scaphopod species inhabiting moderate water depths. For Indonesian specimens Boissevain (1906) used the name <i>F. tenuifissum</i> Monterosato, 1875 (= <i>F. rubescens</i> Deshayes, 1825) as did Ludbrook (1954) for western Indian Ocean specimens. Recent revision (Nicklès 1979) and personal observations confirm that <i>F. rubescens</i> is distributed in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic areas (from France to Gabon and the São Thomé Islands). Pending further research, I prefer to use different names for specimens from different oceans; molecular studies are probably necessary to confirm the validity of these regularly slit fustiariids.
description: Published as part of <i>Scarabino, Victor, 2008, New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia, pp. 215-268 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196</i> on pages 236-237
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