Lophopleurella capensis
Drawing of right side of preserved specimen of Lophopleurella capensis from original description by Johannes Thiele (1912).
Drawing of left side of the same specimen.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

Informal group Opisthobranchia
clade Sacoglossa

clade Oxynoacea
Superfamily:
Oxynooidea
Family:
Oxynoidae
Genus:
Lophopleurella

Zilch, 1956[1]
Species:
L. capensis
Binomial name
Lophopleurella capensis
(Thiele, 1912)[2]
Synonyms
  • Lobiger (Lophopleura) capensis Thiele, 1912
  • Lobiger capensis Thiele, 1912

Lophopleurella capensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.

Lophopleurella capensis is the only species in the genus Lophopleurella.[3]

The specific name "capensis" is from the Latin language, meaning "of the Cape", i.e. from the Cape Province".

Distribution

The type locality for this species is South Africa.[3]

Description

This species was originally described under name Lobiger (Lophopleura) capensis by German malacologist Johannes Thiele in 1912 as a result of the Gauss Expedition (1901–1903), that was the first German expedition to Antarctica.

Johannes Thiele described it very briefly stating, that it "has wing-shaped attachments on sides of the body and very small wing on its shell".[2]

German malacologist Adolf Michael Zilch established a new genus Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956[1] for this species, because the name Lophopleura Ragonot, 1891[4] had already been occupied and used for a genus of lepidopterans from family Pyralidae. Zilch only created the new generic name without a review of the genus.[1]

Drawing of dorsal view of the shell.
Drawing of ventral view of the shell.

References

  1. 1 2 3 (in German) Zilch A. M. (1956). "Nomenklatorische Bemerkungen". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 85: 85.
  2. 1 2 Thiele J. (1912). "Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln". In: Drygalski E. v. (ed.) Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, Georg Reimer, Berlin, 8(5): 24-285. 19 plates. page 279, page 285, plate 19, figure 18-19.
  3. 1 2 Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
  4. ↑ Ragonot (1891). Ann. Soc. Ent. France (6)10: 506.
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