Myonera Dall
Year: 2025
Type: other
Abstract: Myonera Dall & E. A. Smith, 1886 Type species: Myonera paucistriata Dall, 1886. Composition: Twenty-one extant valid species, of which twenty are listed in MolluscaBase (2025) and one is newly described here. Myonera acutecarinata (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1906), Myonera alleni Poutiers, 1995, Myonera angularis (Jeffreys, 1876), Myonera atlasiana Utrilla, Rueda & C. Salas, 2020, Myonera bicarinata E. A. Smith, 1896, Myonera canariensis (De Boer, 1985), Myonera dautzenbergi Prashad, 1932, Myonera dispar (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938), Myonera garretti Dall, 1908, Myonera gigantea (A. E. Verrill, 1884), Myonera kaiwa Oliveira & Absalão, 2009, Myonera lamellifera (Dall, 1881), Myonera limatula (Dall, 1881), Myonera lischkei (E. A. Smith, 1891), Myonera pailoloana (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938), Myonera paucistriata Dall, 1886, Myonera pretiosa A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898, Myonera rostra Poutiers & F. R. Bernard, 1995, Myonera sulcifera (Jeffreys, 1882), Myonera tasmanica (Knudsen, 1970) and Myonera aleutiana Machado & Sigwart, sp. nov. Diagnosis Shell small to medium size (3.5 to 24 mm in length), thin, fragile, outline variable, inequilateral, rostrate (mostly) or posterior end truncate, usually inflated, right valve generally larger than left, with margins overlapping. Externally with concentric and / or radial ornamentation, usually covering the entire shell, starting from the umbones. Hinge plate feeble, edentate in both valves. Ligament internal, resilifer posteriorly pointed or nearly vertical; presence of lithodesma. Labial palps small. Muscular septum usually with four pairs of pores (after Knudsen (1970), Allen and Morgan (1981), Poutiers and Bernard (1995) and Coan and Valentich-Scott (2012)).
Authors: (SOSA), Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance, Andrade, Luiz F., Boyko, Christopher B., Brandt, Angelika, Buge, Barbara, Dávila Jiménez, Yasmín, Henseler, Mats, Hernández Alcántara, Pablo, Jóźwiak, Piotr, Knauber, Henry, Marcondes Machado, Fabrizio, Martínez-Muñoz, Carlos A., Momtazi, Farzaneh, Nakadera, Yumi, Qiu, Jian-Wen, Riehl, Torben, Rouse, Greg W., Sigwart, Julia D., Sirenko, Boris, Souza-Filho, Jesser F., Steger, Jan, Stępień, Anna, Tilic, Ekin, Trautwein, Bianca, Vončina, Katarzyna, Williams, Jason D., Zhang, Junlong
Institutions: Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt/M, University of Łódź, Hofstra University, Goethe University Frankfurt, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Hong Kong Baptist University, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Zoological Institute, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, University of Vienna, Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology
Language: English
Subfield: Oceanography
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7091476972
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