TY - JOUR
T1 - A new species of Callochiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from the Strait of Messina (central Mediterranean)
AU - Dell'Angelo, Bruno
AU - Renda, Walter
AU - Sossa, Maurizio
AU - Sigwart, Julia
AU - Giacobbe, Salvatore
PY - 2017/12/20
Y1 - 2017/12/20
N2 - A new species of Callochiton, C. stefaniae n. sp., is identified in the framework of investigations aimed to better characterise the Strait of Messina benthic ecosystem. The new species, found in a peculiar facies of hard bottoms densely colonised by the hydrocoral Errina aspera (Linnaeus, 1767), is morphologically distinct from the co-generic Callochiton septemvalvis (Montagu, 1803), living in the Mediterranean Sea and along other European coasts, and C. doriae (Capellini, 1859), living only in the Mediterranean Sea.
AB - A new species of Callochiton, C. stefaniae n. sp., is identified in the framework of investigations aimed to better characterise the Strait of Messina benthic ecosystem. The new species, found in a peculiar facies of hard bottoms densely colonised by the hydrocoral Errina aspera (Linnaeus, 1767), is morphologically distinct from the co-generic Callochiton septemvalvis (Montagu, 1803), living in the Mediterranean Sea and along other European coasts, and C. doriae (Capellini, 1859), living only in the Mediterranean Sea.
U2 - 10.1127/arch.moll/146/243-250
DO - 10.1127/arch.moll/146/243-250
M3 - Article
SN - 1869-0963
VL - 146
SP - 243
EP - 250
JO - Archiv für Molluskenkunde - International Journal of Malacology
JF - Archiv für Molluskenkunde - International Journal of Malacology
ER -