A new species of the genus Pectinodonta Dall, 1882 (Gastropoda: Pectinodontidae) from the East China Sea

ABSTRACT

A new pectinodontid species collected from sunken wood in the East China Sea off Zhejiang Province, China, is described and assigned to the genus Pectinodonta Dall, 1882. This new species, Pectinodonta mazuae n. sp., has a medium sized shell with a fine sculpture; shell width about 72%–75% of shell length, height about 61%–66% of length, and each lateral tooth has 16 or 17 cusps. These features may be used to distinguish the new species from its congeners.

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KEYWORDS:

• Lottioidea
• radula
• sunken wood
• western Pacific

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Mr Fei Wu for his enthusiastic help in collecting the specimens. We sincerely thank Dr Bruce A. Marshall (Museum of New Zealand, Wellington) for providing us with helpful references and reviewing the manuscript. Thanks also to an anonymous reviewer and Dr Don Colgan for their helpful comments and meticulous editing that led to great improvements in the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 41606162].