New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

---

Three new species of Neomenia (Mollusca: Solenogastres) from the Southern Hemisphere

Luitfried V. Salvini-Plawen
Irene Paar-Gausch

Institut für Zoologie
Universität Wien
Althanstrasze 14
A-1090 Wien, Austria
email: Luitfried.Salvini-Plawen@univie.ac.at

Abstract  Archaeomenia prisca Thiele is re-examined and three Neomenia species new to science (class Solenogastres, order Neomeniamorpha) are described and defined. One species, N. naevata spec. nov., comes from New Zealand waters and two species, N. megatrapezata spec. nov. and N. trivialis spec. nov., are recorded from one sample close to the South Shetland Islands. N. naevata possesses a subvaginal, thin-walled epithelial gland as do several other Neomenia species. N. megatrapezata as well as N. trivialis exhibit sac-like elongations of the terminal midgut surrounding the copulatory stylet sheaths, similar to those of A. prisca. The biogeographic implications are considered.

Keywords  Mollusca; Solenogastres; Neomeniidae; biodiversity; systematics

M03008; Online publication date 15 March 2004; Received 5 February 2003; accepted 20 August 2003
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 2004, Vol. 38: 137-162
0028-8330/04/3804-0137 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2004

PDF file of entire paper: Print-quality (10710K) | screen-quality (493K)

---

This year's abstracts | Journal home page | All abstracts | Publishing home page