Examined material.

Taxon classification

Animalia

Nuculanoida

Yoldiidae

Suárez-Mozo

Nancy Yolimar

Gracia

Adriana

Valentich-Scott

Paul

A new species of

Malletia

(

Bivalvia

Malletiidae

) and new records of deep-water bivalves from Pacific Southern Colombia

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10.3897/zookeys.762.20335

Orthoyoldia

panamensis

(Dall, 1908)

Examined material.

10 valves EA344 (2.3905°N, 78.8288°W) at 656 m (INV MOL9812), 6 live specimens EA344 at 656 m (INV MOL9813), 5 valves EA337 (1.7811°N, 79.035139° W) at 530 m (INV MOL9814), 4 valves EA337 at 530 m (INV MOL9815), 4 live specimens EA332 (1.6677°N, 79.1826°W) at 730 m (INV MOL9816), 2 live specimens EA345 (2.5557°N, 79.0476°W) at 668 m (INV MOL9817).

New location.

Off Nariño, Colombian Pacific.

Distribution.

Mexico to Peru (Coan and Valentich-Scott 2012), Choco-Colombia (Gracia and Valentich-Scott 2014).

Remarks.

Orthoyoldiapanamensis has previously been collected in depths from 120 to 475 m in Colombia (Gracia and Valentich-Scott 2014). This study extends the bathymetric range to 730 m in the Colombian Pacific.

Coan

Valentich-Scott

(2012) Bivalve Seashells of Tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara, 1258 pp.

Gracia

Valentich-Scott

(2014) New records of soft bottom bivalves (

Mollusca

) inhabiting the northern Pacific Ocean of Colombia.Marine Biodiversity Records7: 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755267214000566