|
Lophopleurella capensis
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". DistributionThe type locality for this species is South Africa.[3] DescriptionThis 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]
References
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
