1. 'Draculamya' uraniae: A New Small-Sized Bivalve from the Mediterranean Sea (Galeommatida, Lasaeidae)
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Luigi Romani, Stefano Bartolini, P. Graham Oliver, and Marco Taviani
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mollusca ,Mediterranean Sea ,new species ,Draculamya ,Glibertia ,Galeommatida ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
A new Galeommatid bivalve is described for the Mediterranean Sea, tentatively assigned to the elusive genus Draculamya Oliver and Lützen, 2011. “Draculamya” uraniae n. sp is described upon a number of dead but fresh and articulated specimens, plus many loose valves. Its distribution is almost basin-wide in the Mediterranean, and it possibly occurs in the adjacent Gulf of Cadiz. As for many members in Galeommatida, we hypothesize that “Draculamya” uraniae lives as commensal upon a still-unknown host. The possible co-identity of the extant genus Draculamya with the morphologically similar Pliocene Glibertia Van der Meulen, 1951, is discussed, although the lack of anatomical and genetic support leaves the problem open.
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- 2021
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