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Journal of the Netherlands Malacological Society Bastera Volume 81 (1-3) | 10 September 2017 Volume 81 (1-3) | 10 September 2017 Basteria_cover_81(1-3):Opmaak 1 8/26/2017 12:28 PM Page 1 Contents JOURNAL OF THE NETHERLANDS MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY BASTERA VOLUME 81 (1-3) | 10 SEPTEMBER 2017 VOLUME 81 (1-3) | 10 SEPTEMBER 2017 Willan, R.C. & Chang, Y.-W. Description of three new species of Tambja (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) from the western Pacific Ocean reveals morphological characters with taxonomic and phylogenetic significance for traditional Polyceridae and related ‘phaneorobranch’ nudibranchs ........................................................................ 1 Breure, A.S.H. & Backhuys, W. Type material of Drouët’s molluscan taxa described from French Guiana and Martinique .................................................................................... 24 Hoeksema, D.F. & Simons, G.F. Bornia canariensis Hoeksema & Simons, 2011, in the Mediterranean (Bivalvia, Heterodonta, Galeommatoidea, Kelliidae )............................. 27 Smriglio, C., Mariottini, P. & Swinnen, F. A new mathildid from Saint Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Mathildidae) ................................. 29 Boeters, H.D. Corrections regarding Clameia brooki Boeters & Gittenberger, 199 0, and Mervicia kirea Boeters, 1991 (Gastropoda, Moitessieriidae and Hydrobiidae) ................ 36 Heij, A. de, Goud, J. & Martin, J. The distribution of Sepiolidae (Cephalopoda) in the Cretan subspecies of Northeast Atlantic Ocean ....................................................................................................... 37 Metafrucicola nicosiana Poorten, J.J. ter & Chino, M. A note on the identity of Acrosterigma suluanum Neubert & Hirschfelder Vidal, 1999 (Bivalvia, Cardiidae) ........................................................................................... 51 (p.60) Neubert, E. & Hirschfelder, H.-J. On a new subspecies of Metafruticicola (Rothifruticicola ) nicosiana from Crete (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Hygromiidae) ......................................... 60 Index to Volume 80 ........................................................................................................................ 63 Basteria_cover_81(1-3):Opmaak 1 8/26/2017 12:28 PM Page 2 Editorial board Prof. Dr E. Gittenberger (editor-in-chief), Dr B. Kokshoorn (layout editor), G.C. Kronenberg (editor). Associated editors Prof. Dr G. van der Velde (freshwater molluscs), Prof. Dr G.J. Vermeij (fossil and recent marine molluscs), Dr F.P. Wesselingh (fossil molluscs). Editorial address Naturalis Biodiversity Center Darwinweg 2, P.O. 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Printed by High Trade , Zwolle, The Netherlands B2017-01-Willan:Basteria-2015 8/26/2017 1:57 PM Page 1 Description of three new species of Tambja (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia, Polyceridae) from the western Pacific Ocean reveals morphological characters with taxonomic and phylogenetic significance for traditional Polyceridae and related ‘phaneorobranch’ nudibranchs Richard C. Willan Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory , G.P.O. Box 4646, Darwin, Northern Territory 0801, Australia; [email protected] [corresponding author] Yen -Wei Chang Department of Marine Recreation, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Magong City 880, Taiwan ; [email protected] . Former addresses: Institute of Marine Biology and Asia-Pacific Ocean Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 804, 1 Taiwan ; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory , G.P.O. Box 4646, Darwin, Northern Territory 0801, Australia Three new species of Tambja Burn, 1962 (Nudibranchia , Tambja within the traditional family Polyceridae . This Polyceridae , Nembrothinae ) are described and illus - genus is presently an assemblage of at least two distinct trated, and two new genera are introduced . Tambja dra - clades. In particular, we suggest that all, not just some, comus spec. nov. occurs in (cool temperate) species of Tambja sensu stricto possess a pre- southeastern Australian and northern New Zealand rhinophoral sensory organ that is probably homolo - waters ; T. caeruleocirrus spec. nov. occurs more widely gous with those possessed by (at least some) species of in (warm temperate) southwestern Pacific waters with Thecacera and Gymnodorididae. Five small species lack - its distribution centered in eastern Australia; T. pulcher - ing this organ and constituting a clade genetically are rima spec. nov. occurs very widely throughout the here shifted out of Tambja into Martadoris gen. nov., (tropical, subtropical and warm temperate) western thus rendering Tambja monophyletic . Neither is another Pacific Ocean from southern Japan to northern New traditional nembrothine genus , Roboastra Bergh, 1877 , Zealand. The fact that there is no remaining type series monophyletic. On account of rows of sensory pits all of Nembrotha (?) verconis Basedow & Hedley, 1905 along the body (none being homologous with the pre- (presently Tambja verconis ) is taxonomically significant , rhinophoral sensory organ) we suggest Roboastra sensu not only because it is the type species of the genus stricto should accommodate only the type species, the Tambja , but also because that species must be distin - relatively small R. gracilis (Bergh, 1877). The large guished unequivocally from one of the species newly species that lack these pits and are predatory on other named here, T. pulcherrima , which it resembles exter - nembrothines previously classified in Roboastra are nally . To remedy this nomenclatural gap , a neotype is herein shifted into Tyrannodoris gen. nov. herein designated for Nembrotha (?) verconis Basedow & Hedley, 1905. These three new species and the investi - Key words: Gastropoda, Nudibranchia , morphology, taxonomy, gated morphological characters they possess have phylogeny, dietary specialisation, biogeography, Indo-Pacific important phylogenetic implications for the genus Ocean. Basteria 81 (1-3): 1-23 (2017) B2017-01-Willan:Basteria-2015 8/26/2017 1:57 PM Page 2 Introduction these “traditional characters”. Importantly, we argue that one hitherto unresolved character, the pre- Burn (1962a) introduced the genus Tambja in the fam - rhinophoral sensory organ, is actually possessed by all ily Gymnodorididae with two included species on the Tambja species (i.e. under our definition of Tambja ) basis that the radula and reproductive system differed instead of just some species or some individuals from those of the similar-looking genus Nembrotha within particular species . Therefore, it is highly Bergh, 1877. Over the subsequent 50 years , the genus important phylogenetically (see below) . A summary Tambja has been shifted to the family Polyceridae (sub - of the taxonomic characters of the genus Tambja as we family Nembrothinae) (herein termed the ‘traditional define it is given at the end of this paper. Polyceridae’ and ‘traditional Nembrothinae’) and It has to be acknowledged that species of Tambja some 30 additional species have either been newly vary both intraspecifically and ontogenetically, with described as members of Tambja or transferred there some species apparently varying more than others. (Gofas & Bouchet , 2015). Tambja morosa is a good example of a species that A review of the taxonomic history of the genus is varies greatly in colour between individuals (Marshall given here to explain the present concept of Tambja & Willan , 1999; Pola et al ., 2006b), and T. ceutae Garcia- (i.e. that held by Gofas & Bouchet, 2015, and Gomez & Ortea, 1988 , and T. marbellensis Schick & Dominguez et al. , 2015). Independently in 2005, two Cervera, 1988 are good examples of species that vary groups of malacologists presented reappraisals of ontogenetically (Sánchez-Tocino et al. , 2000). Indeed, Tambja in conjunction with the description of new identification of juvenile individuals of these two species (Miller & Haagh , 2005; Pola et al. , 2005 a). Tambja species to the level of species is particularly Miller
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