Lophopleurella capensis

Lophopleurella capensis
	Drawing of right side of preserved specimen of Lophopleurella capensis from original description by Johannes Thiele (1912).
	Drawing of left side of the same specimen.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia; Informal group Opisthobranchia; clade Sacoglossa; clade Oxynoacea
Superfamily:	Oxynooidea
Family:	Oxynoidae
Genus:	Lophopleurella; Zilch, 1956
Species:	L. capensis
Binomial name
	Lophopleurella capensis; (Thiele, 1912)
Synonyms
	Lobiger (Lophopleura) capensis Thiele, 1912; Lobiger capensis Thiele, 1912;

Lophopleurella capensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Oxynoidae.

Lophopleurella capensis is the only species in the genus Lophopleurella.^[3]

The specific name "capensis" is from the Latin language, meaning "of the Cape", i.e. from the Cape Province".

Distribution

The type locality for this species is South Africa.^[3]

Description

This species was originally described under name Lobiger (Lophopleura) capensis by German malacologist Johannes Thiele in 1912 as a result of the Gauss Expedition (1901–1903), that was the first German expedition to Antarctica.

Johannes Thiele described it very briefly stating, that it "has wing-shaped attachments on sides of the body and very small wing on its shell".^[2]

German malacologist Adolf Michael Zilch established a new genus Lophopleurella Zilch, 1956^[1] for this species, because the name Lophopleura Ragonot, 1891^[4] had already been occupied and used for a genus of lepidopterans from family Pyralidae. Zilch only created the new generic name without a review of the genus.^[1]

Drawing of dorsal view of the shell.

Drawing of ventral view of the shell.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c (in German) Zilch A. M. (1956). "Nomenklatorische Bemerkungen". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 85: 85.
^ ^a ^b Thiele J. (1912). "Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln". In: Drygalski E. v. (ed.) Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, Georg Reimer, Berlin, 8(5): 24-285. 19 plates. page 279, page 285, plate 19, figure 18-19.
^ ^a ^b Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.
^ Ragonot (1891). Ann. Soc. Ent. France (6)10: 506.

[Zilch_1856-1] (in German) Zilch A. M. (1956). "Nomenklatorische Bemerkungen". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 85: 85.

[Tiele_1912-2] Thiele J. (1912). "Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln". In: Drygalski E. v. (ed.) Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, Georg Reimer, Berlin, 8(5): 24-285. 19 plates. page 279, page 285, plate 19, figure 18-19.

[Jensen_2007-3] Jensen K. R. (November 2007). "Biogeography of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia)" Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55(2006)(3-4): 255–281.

[4] Ragonot (1891). Ann. Soc. Ent. France (6)10: 506.

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