First report of overlooked marine gastropods from India concerning their geographical distribution

• Smitanjali Choudhury ^[1] ; Raju Kayal Vizhi ^[1] ; Chandrakasan Sivaperuman ^[1]
  1. [1] Zoological Survey of India
• Localización: Thalassas: An international journal of marine sciences, ISSN 0212-5919, Vol. 38, Nº. 1, 2022, págs. 141-155
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Recent marine benthic surveys off the eastern Andaman coast have revealed six unusual marine gastropods namely, Homalocantha anatomica (Perry in Conchology or the natural history of shells; containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, W. Miller, London, 1811), Aspella aclydis Houart (NOVAPEX 18(4):81–103, 2017), Aspella mauritiana Radwin and D'Attilio (Murex shells of the World: An illustrated guide to the Muricidae 11:284p, 1976), Cheilea imbricata (Fischer Von Waldheim in Moscow: Imprimerie de Université Impériale de Moscou 3:300pp, 1807), Cheilea bulla (Reeve in Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals 11:1–8, 1858), and Amonovula pirie (Petuch in The Veliger 16(1):103–104, 1973), as new records to Indian water. Of the recorded gastropods, Aspella aclydis, Amonovula piriei, and Cheilea bulla which are widely distributed in the eastern and central Indo-Pacific bioregions, establish as the first record from the western Indo-Pacific marine province. While Aspella mauritiana, Homalocantha anatomica and Cheilea imbricata inhabiting the western Indian Ocean and the central Indo-Pacific ecoregions, fill a large gap in their geographical distribution in the Andaman Sea