Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1959 (Parker, 1961; Wolff, 1961; both fide Chen 2024)
Rediscovered on: 28 October 2023 at 00:46 UTC (Chen, 2024)
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. https://doi.org/10.1038/179413a0
Other references:
Chen, Chong. (2024). In situ observation and range extension of the first discovered monoplacophoran Neopilina galatheae. Journal of Molluscan Studies 90(2): eyae014. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyae014
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. (1968). New species of Neopilina of the Cambro-Devonian class Monoplacophora from the Milne-Edwards deep of the Peru-Chile Trench, R/V Anton Bruun. Marine Biological Association of India. Proceedings of the Symposium on Mollusca 1: 1-9.
Menzies, R. J., Ewing, M., Worzel, J. L. and Clarke, A. H. (1959). Ecology of the Recent Monoplacophora. Oikos 10(2): 168-182.
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=343689 on 2026-03-01
Moskalev, L. I. (1977). Towards a revision of molluscs Lepetidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) of the world ocean. Works of the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences U.S.S.R. 108: 52-78.
Parker, R. H. (1961). Speculations on the origin of the invertebrate faunas of the lower continental slope. Deep Sea Research 8: 286-293.
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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