Examined material.

Taxon classification

Animalia

Limida

Limidae

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

Limatula

saturna

F.R. Bernard, 1978

Fig. 6

Examined material.

2 live specimens EA335 (1.7499°N, 79.5017°W) at 866 m (INV MOL9772).

New location.

Colombian Pacific.

Distribution.

U.S.A. to Mexico (Coan and Valentich-Scott 2012).

Remarks.

Limatulasaturna has been documented from Alaska to northern Mexico from 20–675 m (Coan and Valentich-Scott 2012).The Colombian specimens represent the first record for South America. Very recently (i.e., March 2018), this species has been observed in the region of Lambayeque, Peru (Valentich-Scott, pers. obs.).

Figure 2–12.

2 Exterior and interior views of Ennuculapanamina3Jupiterialobula (total length = 4.2 mm) 4Neilonellacf.atossa (total length = 5 mm) 5Malletiagoniura6Limatulacf.saturna7Lucinomaheroica8Calyptogenacf.gallardoi9Carycorbula sp. 10Cuspidariapanamensis11Dallicordiaalaskana12Lyonsiellacf.magnifica. Scale bars: 2, 5, 6, 9, 11 5 mm. 7, 8, 10, 12 10 mm.

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.