Tropical deep-sea benthos volume 26 : deep-water pyramidelloidea of the tropical south pacific: turb

Deep water pyramidelloidea of the tropical south pacific : turbonilla and related genera

Penas A. & Rolan E.

436 pages, parution le 15/09/2010

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The Pyramidellidae are a species-rich family of small gastropods which live as ectoparasites on other marine invertebrates. Their subtle variations around a quite homogenous basic morphology make species-level taxonomy extremely difficult. This volume contains the descriptions of 272 species collected in the last 30 years of deep-sea benthic exploration promoted by MNHN and IRD scientists. More than three-quarters of the species are new to science, and more is to come with the other genera to be studied following Turbonilla.
This paper takes a step forward towards answering some questions regarding the mega-diverse Indo-Pacific. What is really the order of magnitude of species richness? How are numbers of individuals distributed among species? How heterogeneous is the fauna on a geographic scale?
Anselmo Peñas and Emilio Rolán have a considerable background in malacology, mostly European and Eastern Atlantic. Their venture with the Pyramidellidae started with the European and West African species, in a series of papers which appeared in the Spanish malacological journal Iberus, in which new species appeared by the dozens. The move to the Indo-Pacific goes up one order of magnitude, and only the great XIX century expeditions match similar numbers of new species introduced in a single paper.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Auteur(s)	Penas A. & Rolan E.
Parution	15/09/2010
Nb. de pages	436
Format	22 x 27.5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1700g
EAN13	9782856536421