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On the morphology and taxonomic position of Babylonia (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) M. G. Harasewych & Yuri I. Kantor Harasewych, M.G. & Y.I. Kantor. 2001. On the morphology and taxonomic position of Babylonia (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae). - Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 25(1): 255-256. Gastropods of the genus Babylonin F. Schltitea 1838 are commercially important molluscs in many countries of SE Asia. While taxonomy, ecology and reproductive biology of several species were the subject of investigations; the anatomy of them was never studied in any details (except for the radular characters). This genus was always attributed to 256 Tropical Marine Mollusc Programme (TMMP) the family Buccinidae (superfamily Buccinoidea). The Buccinoidea are considered to be one of the few uncontroversial monophyletic groups within Neogastropoda. The characters uniting all the representatives are multicuspid lateral radular teeth, long proboscis, and absence of accessory salivary glands and of an anal gland. Our knowledge of the anatomy of Buccinoidea in general and Buccinidae in particular, are limited to a very few species, mostly from high latitudes. Tropical and subtropical representatives of Buciinidae remain poorly studied. During the TMMP workshop in Vietn arnin1999 the junior author had the chance to study the anatomy of Bablllonia areolata (Link, 1,807). Examination revealed several characters for Buccinidae, particularly the presence of the accessory salivary gland., the presence of unusual anal gland (never recorded before neither ln Buccinidae, nor in Buccinoidea in general) as well as some other unusual characters, like the presence of the glandular dorsal folds in the mid- posterior oesophagus, extremely long radular diverticulum equal in length to the proboscis, and a very short digestive system with a U- shaped stomach lacking a caecum and completely overlaid by the nephridium. Examination of additional species - Babylonia [utosa Lamarck, 1811 and Babylonia pnpiliaris (Sowerby, 1825) (usually attributed to the genus Zemiropsis Thiele, 1929)revealed morphological similarity of all species. This combination of characters is unique for the Buccinoidea, raising the question whether Babylonin represents the most primitive buccinoideary or whether it belongs to the different taxon. This question was addressed using sequence data for the mitochondrial genes for cytochrome c oxidase I and 163 RNA, which revealed, lhat Babylonia represent the separate family Babyloniidae, not closely related to Buccinoidea. This is additional example of still poor knowledge of anatomy and taxonomic position of even well studied and commercially important species of tropical marine molluscs. M.G. Hqrasewych. Department of lnaertebrste Zoology, National Museum of N ntural History, Smithsonien Institution, Washington, D.C. 20 S 60-011 B, U.S,A. Yuri l. Kantor. A.N. Seztertsoa Institute of Problems of Euolution, Russinn Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117071, Russia..

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