LIFOU 2000, PANGLAO 2004, SANTO 2006

LIFOU 2000, MONTROUZIER, PANGLAO 2004, PAPUA NIUGINI, RAPA 2002, SANTO 2006

The small conoidean Hemilienardia ocellata is one of the easily recognizable Indo-Pacific “turrids”, primarily because of its remarkable eyespot colour pattern. Morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses revealed four species that share this “characteristic” colour pattern but demonstrate consistent differences in size and shell proportions. Three new species – Hemilienardia acinonyx sp. nov. from the Philippines, H. lynx sp. nov. from Papua New Guinea and H. pardus sp. nov. from the Society and Loyalty Islands – are described based on the results of phylogenetic analyses. Although the H. ocellata species complex clade falls in a monophyletic Hemilienardia, H. ocellata and H. acinonyx sp. nov. possess a radula with semi-enrolled or notably flattened triangular marginal teeth, a condition that diverges substantially from the standard radular morphology of Hemilienardia and other raphitomids.

KAVIENG 2014, LAGON, LIFOU 2000, MONTROUZIER, MUSORSTOM 10, PANGLAO 2004, PAPUA NIUGINI, SANTO 2006

The genus Phaenomenella is briefly reviewed. Phaenomenella vexabilis sp. nov. is described from deep-water off Taiwan. It is compared with P. mokenorum Fraussen, 2008 and P. inflata (Shikama, 1971). The shell shape and the spiral sculpture serve to distinguish the single known broken shell from all other known Phaenomenella species.

TAIWAN 2000, TAIWAN 2001, TAIWAN 2002

Crassicantharus aureatus sp. nov., C. beslui sp. nov., C. boutetorum sp. nov., C. feioides sp. nov., C. letourneuxi sp. nov., C. magnificus sp. nov., C. metallicus sp. nov., C. nexus sp. nov. and C. perlatus sp. nov. are described from French Polynesia and compared to C. norfolkensis Ponder, 1972. Two more specimens are recorded as Crassicantharus species 1 and Crassicantharus species 2. The placement of Crassicantharus in Buccinidae or Fasciolariidae is questioned and briefly discussed.

BENTHAUS, MUSORSTOM 9

MUSORSTOM 9

The species placed in the heterogenous genus Clivipollia Iredale, 1929 are revised. Strong similarities in apertural morphology with Falsilatirus Emerson & Moffitt, 1988 are discussed and the genus is regarded as a sister genus of Clivipollia. Differences in protoconch morphology, apertural denticulation and sculpture serve to distinguish Speccapollia gen. nov. to harbour Ricinula recurva Reeve, 1846, a species commonly assigned to Clivipollia and Clivipollia tokiae Chino & Fraussen, 2015. Engina Gray, 1839 and Enzinopsis Iredale, 1940 are briefly discussed and compared to the new genus. The new genus Minioniella gen. nov. is described for Minioniella heleneae sp. nov. and compared to Clivipollia and Enginella Monterosato, 1917. Three new species are added to the Indo-West Pacific fauna: Clivipollia delicata sp. nov. from Austral Islands (southern French Polynesia), Speccapollia africana sp. nov. from Mozambique and Minioniella heleneae sp. nov. from Moruroa (southern French Polynesia). Ricinula pulchrum Reeve, 1846 is proposed as a nomen protectum in favor of Turbinella elegans Dunker in Küster, 1844. Peristernia elegans var. papuaensis Tapparone Canefri, 1879 from New Guinea is placed in synonymy with Clivipollia pulchra (Reeve, 1846). Peristernia paulucciae Tapparone Canefri, 1879 from East Africa is confirmed as a synonym of Clivipollia incarnata Deshayes in Laborde & Linant, 1830. Turbinella wagneri Anton, 1839 is excluded from the genus Clivipollia but no alternative is proposed, its placement being still uncertain. Engina gigas Landau & Vermeij, 2012, a fossil from the early Pliocene of the Dominican Republic, is transferred to Clivipollia based on protoconch morphology and sculpture, being the only record of Clivipollia known to us in the Atlantic.

BENTHAUS

The tropical deep-water Cominellinae commonly assigned to the genera Manaria E. A. Smith, 1906 and Eosipho Thiele, 1929 are revised. While the taxonomic details at the generic level were discussed by Kantor et al. (2013), the species level is discussed here. Twentyone new species are described: Manaria astrolabis n. sp. (French Polynesia), M. borbonica n. sp. (Réunion), M. circumsonaxa n. sp. (Papua New Guinea and the Solomons), M. corindoni n. sp. (Indonesia), M. corporosis n. sp. (the Solomons, Vanuatu, Coral Sea and New Caledonia), M. explicibilis n. sp. (Papua New Guinea and the Solomons), M. excalibur n. sp. (Indonesia and Western Australia), M. fluentisona n. sp. (the Solomons, Fiji, Wallis and Tonga), M. hadorni n. sp. (Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia), M. indomaris n. sp. (India), M. loculosa n. sp. (Fiji), M. lozoueti n. sp. (North Fiji Basin), M. terryni n. sp. (Mozambique Channel), M. tongaensis n. sp. (Tonga), M. tyrotarichoides n. sp. (Mozambique Channel), Calagrassor bacciballus n. sp. (Philippines), C. delicatus n. sp. (New Zealand), C. hespericus n. sp. (Mozambique), C. pidginoides n. sp. (Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomons and Vanuatu), Enigmaticolus marshalli n. sp. (Kermadec Ridge, Monowai Caldera), and E. voluptarius n. sp. (New Caledonia). Considerable range extensions are recorded: Manaria kuroharai Azuma, 1960 is recorded from the Solomons, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Tonga; M. brevicaudata (Schepman, 1911) is recorded from Taiwan, the Philippines, the Solomons and Fiji; and Calagrassor poppei (Fraussen, 2001) is recorded from Indonesia and the Solomons. Lathyrus jonkeri Koperberg, 1931, a fossil described from Indonesia, is recorded from the Recent fauna of Indonesia, Philippines and Fiji and is redescribed and placed in Manaria. Sipho jonkeri Koperberg, 1931, another fossil described from Indonesia in the same work, is a secondary homonym of Manaria jonkeri (Koperberg, 1931) and is renamed Manaria koperbergae nom. nov.

AURORA 2007, BATHUS 1, BATHUS 2, BATHUS 3, BATHUS 4, BENTHAUS, BERYX 11, BIOCAL, BIOGEOCAL, Restreint, BIOPAPUA, BOA0, BOA1, BORDAU 1, BORDAU 2, CHALCAL 1, CONCALIS, CORAIL 2, CORINDON 2, Restreint, Restreint, Restreint, EBISCO, HALIPRO 1, KARUBAR, MAINBAZA, MIRIKY, MUSORSTOM 10, MUSORSTOM 2, MUSORSTOM 3, MUSORSTOM 4, MUSORSTOM 5, MUSORSTOM 6, MUSORSTOM 7, MUSORSTOM 8, PANGLAO 2005, SALOMON 1, SALOMON 2, SALOMONBOA 3, SANTO 2006, SMIB 4, SMIB 5, SMIB 6, SMIB 8, TAIWAN 2000, TAIWAN 2001, TAIWAN 2002, TAIWAN 2004, TARASOC, TERRASSES, VOLSMAR

Two new species of the genus Calagrassor Kantor et al., 2013 are described. Calagrassor analogus n. sp. is distributed in Japan, the East China Sea and Taiwan, and has been previously confused with Aulacofusus hiranoi (Shikama, 1962). Differences in protoconch morphology serve to distinguish C. analogus n. sp. from A. hiranoi and differences in sculpture serve to distinguish this new species from C. aldermenensis (Powell, 1971) and C. hayashii (Shikama, 1971). A second and hitherto unknown species is described from Japanese waters as Calagrassor hagai n. sp. Differences in spiral and axial sculpture serve to distinguish it from other known species in the genus.

BOA0, PANGLAO 2005, TAIWAN 2000, TAIWAN 2001, TAIWAN 2004

Crassispira cerithina (Anton, 1838) is a common shallow water conoidean gastropod species, broadly distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific. It has a distinctive shell morphology and has been referred to in many publications. It is also the first species of its family to have been studied from the viewpoint of toxinology. However, our molecular phylogenetic analysis based on fragments of the COI and 28 S rRNA genes reveals the existence of two closely related distinct species, one of which is described as new (C. scala n. sp.). These two species are sympatric in several regions of the Indo-Pacific—in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. They can be reliably distinguished by shell morphology and thus cannot be considered truly cryptic species. The radula is very similar in both species and does not permit species delimitation. A conchological reappraisal of further material similar to C. cerithina allows us to recognize two additional species, which are described as new (C. procera n. sp. from the Coral Sea and Philippines, and C. aurea n. sp. from Tahiti). These results demonstrate that even ‘well-known’ and seemingly well defined species may be species complexes and that molecular techniques should be routinely applied to confirm specimen identification, especially as part of resource-consuming studies, such as toxinology.

CORAIL 2, KAVIENG 2014, LAGON, PAPUA NIUGINI

A total of 14 new raphitomid species are described from the Indo-Pacific and compared with their closest congener. A new name is introduced for Daphne/la angulata HABE & MASUOA, 1990 (non Daphne/la (Raphitoma) angulata PEYROT, 1938).

KAVIENG 2014, PANGLAO 2004, SANTO 2006