Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1959 (Parker, 1961; Wolff, 1961; both fide Chen & Jamieson, 2023 [preprint])
Since rediscovered (Chen & Jamieson, 2023 [preprint])
Distribution & Habitat
The Americas
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lemche, H. (1957). A New Living Deep-Sea Mollusc of the Cambro-Devonian Class Monoplacophora. Nature 179(4556): 413-416.
Other references:
Chen, Chong and Jamieson, John W. (2023). In situ observation and range extension of the first monoplacophoran Neopilina galatheae. bioRxiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.08.566290
Lemche, H. and Wingstrand, K. G. (1959). The anatomy of Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957. Galathea Report 3: 9-71.
Menzies, R. J., Ewing, M., Worzel, J. L. and Clarke, A. H. (1959). Ecology of the Recent Monoplacophora. Oikos 10(2): 168-182.
Schwabe, Enrico. (2008). A summary of reports of abyssal and hadal Monoplacophora and Polyplacophora (Mollusca), pp. 205-222. In: Martínez Arbizu, P. and Brix, S. (eds.). Bringing Light into Deep-sea Biodiversity. Zootaxa 1866(1): 1-574.
Wolff, T. (1961). Animal life from a single abyssal trawling. Galathea 2 Report 5: 129-162.
Yonge, C. M. (1957). Reflexions on the monoplacophoran, Neopilina galatheae Lemche. Nature 179(4561): 672-673. https://doi.org/10.1038/179672a0
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