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A New Volute from the Western Pacific

BY PHILIPPE BOUCHET Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique d'outre-Mer, Centre de Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie *

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DURINGA CRUISE of the R. X "Vauban" on the deep chestnut lines present on the axial ribs but not visible in continental shelf of New Caledonia, a new gastropod of between. The aperture is dirty white. the family has been dredged. A single, live- taken specimen is present but its characteristics are so diE Dimensions of the Shell: height, 64.0"; breadth, 25.5 ferent from the other known species of the family that a mm; height of the aperture, 39.0"; breadth, 11.5". description is presented herein. The has not been observed alive. Preserved in alcohol, the foot, snout and tentacles are yellowish with numerous fine, pink to red radiating lines. The sole is a uniform dirty white. Eyes are present. kuniene Bouchet, spec. nov. Remarks: Since the monograph by WEAVER8 DUPONT (1g70), the descriptions of 4 more Indo-West Pacific Type Material: Holotype in MNHN Lyria have appeared : Type Locality: 22"49'S, 167'12'E (wet of Isle of Pines, - Lyria taiwanica Lan, 1975, from Taiwan, = L. kuwa- southern New Caledonia), in 3go-395m; 10 April, murai Habe, 1975, from Japan (WEAVER,1977) I978 - Lyria mallìcki Ladd, 1975 - Lyria suntoeh Ladd, 1975, both fim the New Heb- Description: Shell solid, ovate fusiform in outline, com- rides Pleistocene posed of 8.5 whorls; the protoconch is bulbous and has - Lyria tuleurensis von Cose1 8r Blöcher, 1977, from Ma- 2.5 smooth whorls, thus indicating direct development dagascar, which is apparently a local form or at (Figure 3) ; the postlarval shell has 6 shouldered whorls most a subspecies of L. delessertiana (Petit de la with a moderately deep suture. The podmd sculpture Saussaye, I 842 ) consists of a few distant axial ribs of which there are g There are now 5 species of Volutidae known from the on the body and penultimate whorls; these ribs are a little waters around New Caledonia : more closely spaced on the first 2 postlarval whorls, on deshayesi (Reeve, 1855) which IO ribs can be counted. Growth lines are very ap- Cymbiola rossìniana (Bernardi, 1859) parent but no spiral sculpture is present. The aperture thatcheri (McCoy, 1868) is rather narrow, semiovate, and roughly occupies a Lyria deliciosa (Montrouzier, 1859) little less than 8 of the shell height. The columella is Lyria kunïene Bouchet, 1979 straight with 4 strong anterior plaits followed by 5 minor The name kuniene is derived from Kunik, the Kanak ones and a tooth-like projection appearing on the parietal name for the Isle of Pines. wall below the suture. The siphonal canal is short. The basic color of the shell is a creamy yellow with spiral Literature Cited

I Permanent address: Muséum national d'Histoire naMlle, 55 NeBuffon, F 75005 Paris COSEL,RUDO VON & bNFRED BLocHsa 1977. Eine neue Lyria aus Madagaskar (Pmsobranchia: Volutidae). 4 We have been informed that the MNHN does not assign type Arch. Molluskenh. 107 (4-6): 195 -201; IO text @s.; x map numbers. Editor. (4 March 1977)

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HABE,TNMHIQB 1975. Three new volutid species () from Formosa and the Arafima Sea. Bull. Nad. Sci. Mus., ser. A (2001.) I (4): 195 - 198; I plt. (21 December 1975) LADD,HARRY S. 1975. Two Pleistocene volutes from the New Hebrides (Mollusca: ). The Veliger 18 (2): 154- 138; 2 plts.; I map (I October 1975) LAN, Tsu-CHIAO 1975. A new species of Lyria (Gastropoda: Volutidae) fi" off north- east of Taiwan. Bull. Chin. Malacol. SOC. I: ros- 105; 9 text figs. (November 1975) WEAVER, CLrFTON STURES 1977. A beautiful new species of volute in the Lyria fbm Taiwan. Hawai. Shell News 25 (2) : I, 11; Ifigs. (November I 977 1 WEAVER,CLIFTON STOKES c JOHN ELEUTR~REDUPONT 1970. Living volutes. A monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the world. Delaware Mus. Nat. Hut. Monogr. Ser. I: I - 375; color plu. I - 79 THEVELIGER, Vol. 22, No. I [BOUCHET] Figures I to 3

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Lyria kunierte Bouchet, spec. nov.

Figure I : ventral view Figure 2 : dorsal view of holotype (photographs by A. Foubert) Figure 3: Protoconch of holotype [scale line I"] ISSN 0042-321I THE 4 VELlGE

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VOLUME22 JULYI, 1979 NUMBERI

CONTENTS Recent Eastern Pacific Species of the Crassatellid Bivalve Genus Crassinella. (4 Plates) EUGENE\.! COAN ...... I Short Account of the Anatomy of a Nudibranchiate Mollusk, Aeolidiella takanosim- ensis Baba, I 930 from Japan (Eolidoidea :Aeolidiidae). (6 Text figures) KIKUTARÔBABA...... 12 Anatomy, Ecology and Distribution of the Volutidae and Volutomitridae (Gastropo- da : Pmsobranchia) of the Southern Indian Ocean. (I Plate; IO Text figures)

& JEAN-JACQUES VAN PATRICKM. ARNAUD MOL ...... * I9 The Role of Passive Dispersal in the Distribution of Hemipelagic Invertebrates, With Examples from the Tropical Pacific Ocean. (3 Text figures)

WILLIAMJ. ZINSMEISTER& WILLIAMK. EMERSON ...... * 32 Three New Opisthobranch Records for the Hawaiian Islands. (I Plate; I Map) 7 c < HANSBERTSCH & Scom JOHNSON ...... * 4' Onchidoris sparsa (Alder 8: Hancock, 1846)in Asturias, Northem Spain. I (I Text figure) l J. A. ORTEA ...... * 45 &@rint -+ A New Volute from the Western Pacific. (I Plate) PHILIPPEBOUCHET ...... 49

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