Artículos de revistas
PLICATULOSTREA, A NEW GENUS OF PLICATULIDAE (BIVALVIA: PECTINOIDEA) FROM THAILAND
Fecha
2008Registro en:
RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY, suppl.18, p.127-135, 2008
0217-2445
Autor
SIMONE, Luiz Ricardo L.
AMARAL, Vanessa Simao do
Institución
Resumen
Plicatulostrea onca, a new genus and species of Plicatulidae, is described based on shell and anatomy. The samples were collected under intertidal rocks at Kungkrabaen Bay, Thailand. Plicatulostrea differs from other plicatulids mainly in lacking undulations or shell sculpture, by long projections of the hinge teeth of the right valve and extreme body compression. Plicatulostrea onca has a radially arranged spots at the shell surface and typical plicatulid anatomy, differing mainly by the richness of papillae on the mantle edge and by invasion of the gonad along the mantle lobes. Some comments on the anatomy of the family are also provided.