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Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricopsinae) from Masirah Island, Oman, Arabian Peninsula R. HOU ART & S. GORI NOV APEX 12(1-2): 39-45, 10 mars 2011 Description of two new Favartia species (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricopsinae) from Masirah Island, Oman, Arabian Peninsula Roland HOUART Research Associate Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique Rue Vautier, 29, B-1000 Bruxelles, Belgium roland.houart@skynet. be Sandra GORI Via Semesi, 7 57123 Livomo, Italy [email protected] KEYWORDS. Eastern Indian Ocean, Arabian Peninsula, Oman, Gastropoda, Muricidae, Favartia n. sp. ABSTRACT. Two new species of Muricidae are described and compared with similar looking species from the western Jndian Ocean. The Favartia species from the studied area are ail illustrated. INTRODUCTION but only a few species were illustrated. Still in 1982 and th en in 1989, Donald and Eloise Bosch pub li shed There are currently 64 known Recent species of two very useful books devoted to the seashells of Favartia s.s. and 22 of Favartia (Pygmaepterys) Oman and of Southern Arabia with numerous color (sensu Houart, in litt.). Twenty-five of these species illustrations of the shells. Then more recently, a team occur in the Indian Ocean of which 12 are also of specialists, weil known for their many contributions recorded in the western Indian Ocean and 8 in the to the study of mollusks, Donald T. Bosch, S. Peter studied area, more precisely, Oman and nearby areas: Dance, Robert G. Moolenbeek and P. Graham Oliver Favartia (Favartia) cecalupoi Bozzetti, 1993, F. (F.) (1995) published a huge and impressive book where cyclostoma (Sowerby, 1841 ), F. (F.) deynzeri Houart, more than a thousand species were described and 1998, F. (F.) flexirostris (Melvill, 1898), F. (F.) illustrated. marJorzae (Melvill & Standen, 1903), F. Three Favartia species were illustrated by these (Pygmaepterys) adenensis (Houart & Wranik, 1989), authors: F. (F.) cyclostoma (Sowerby, 1841) (Bosch et F. (P.) paulbaschi Smythe & Houart, 1984 and F. (P.) al., 1995: 119, fig. 470), F. marjoriae (Melvill & yemenensis (Houart & Wranik, 1989). Standen, 1903) (Bosch et al., 1995: 119, fig. 472), F. The Mollusca of this part of the world were (P.) paulboschi Smythe & Houart, 1984 (Bosch & recently commented on and illustrated in severa! Bosch, 1989: 58; Bosch et al. , 1995: 119, fig . 472) and publications and books. The first publication, by F. (P.) colombi n. sp. [un der the name F. (P.) Biggs (1973), includes Mollusca of the Trucial Coast, yemenensis] (Bosch et al., 1995 : 120, fig . 478). at the southern end of the Persian Gulf (United Arabs Favartia marjoriae (Melvill & Standen, 1903) Emirates), but only a few muricids were listed and one (Figs 23-25) is probably conspecific with F. (F.) was illustrated: Hexaplex kusterianus (Tapparone­ maculata (Reeve, 1845) (Fig. 26), a species living Canefri, 187 5). Doreen Sharabati (1981) followed throughout the Indo-West Pacifie and known to have with a full y illustrated volume with over 100 species very variable shell characters. The protoconch of F. of mollusks depicting their habitats, the ir uses by man marjoriae has not yet been examined, but this and throughout the years and illustrating many species in eventually DNA studies of F. marjoriae and of their habitat. In 1982, Kathleen Smythe published a different forms of F. maculata will be necessary to small book about the seashells of the Arabian Gulf, confirrn or refute their conspecificity. 39 R. HOUART & S. GOR! Two new Favartia species from Masirah Island Table 1. Terminology used to de scribe the spiral cords and apertural denticles ( after Merle, 1999 and 2001) Terminology in parentheses: erratic feature. P : Primary cord s: secondar:y cord IP: Infrasutural primary cord (primary cord on subsutural ram_Q)_ adis : adapical infrasutural secondéll}'_ cordJ...on subsutural ramp) abis: abapical infrasutural secondary co rd (on subsutural ram__I:)} Pl : Shoulder cord P2-P6: Primary cords of the convex part of the teleoconch whorl sl-s6 : secondary cords of the convex_Q_art of the teleoconch whorl exampJe: s = secon dary cordb etween Pl an d P2 ; s 2 = secon dary cordb e t ween P2 an d P3 , e t c. ADP: adapertural primary co rd on the siQ_honal canal MP : median primary cord on the siphonal canal ABP: abapertural primary cord on the si.2_honal canal ads: adapertural secondary cord on the siphonal canal ms: median secondary cord on the siQ_honal canal abs: abapertural secondary cord on the siphonal canal eabs: extreme abapertural secondary cord on the siQhonal canal Example: eabsl = secondary cord between EABP and EABPl APERTURE ID: Dl to D6: Abbreviations SYSTEMATICS BMNH: Natural History Museum, London, U.K. Family MURICIDAE Rafinesque, 1815 IRSNB: Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Subfamily MURICOPSINAE Radwin & D'Attilio, Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium. 1971 MNHN: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, Genus Favartia Jousseaume, 1880 France. Type species by original designation: Murex JC: Collection of Jacques Colomb, Marseille, France. breviculus Sowerby, 1834, Recent, lndo-West Pacifie. RH: Collection of Roland Houart. SG: Collection of San do Go ri. Favartia (Favartia) colombin. sp. Figs 1, 2-6, 27 Pygmaepterys yemenensis - Bosch et al. 1995: 120, fig . 478. Type material. Oman, Masirah Island, Ras Al Ya, 20°29'42" N, 58°57'029" E, 21 rn, on coarse sand, holotype IRSNB IG 31676/ MT 2316. Paratypes: Oman, Masirah Island, Ras Al Ya, 20°29'42" N, 58°57'029" E, 21 rn, on coarse sand, 1 MNHN 23206; Sur Masirah, east of Masirah Island, 1 rn, low tide, under stones, 1 BMNH 20100521; Oman, Masirah Island, Ras Al Y a, 20°39'504" N, 58°52' 138" E, 21 rn, on sand 4 RH, 7 SG; Masirah Island, 2 rn, 1 JC, 1 RH. Other material examined. Oman, Masirah Island, Ras Al Ya, 20°32'895" N, 58°57'420" E, 13 rn, on sand (8 SG, 2 RH); Masirah Island (3 JC); Masirah Island, 2 rn (2 JC); Sur Masirah, east of Masirah, 1 rn, low tide, under stones (15 JC); North of Muscat, Figure 1. Terminology of the spiral sculpture Mina al Fahl, 24-30 rn, dredged, sand and mud (4 morphology in Favartia colombin. sp. RH). 40 R. HOUART & S. GORI NOV APEX 12(1-2): 39-45, 10 mars 2011 Distribution. Oman, north of Muscat and Masirah lower and the spiral cards are more numerous. F. Island. cyclostoma is larger relative to the number of teleoconch whorls, the shell is also much broader with Description. Shell medium-sized for the genus, up to a rounded paucispiral protoconch of 1.5 whorls. F. 16.5 mm in height at maturity. Height/width ratio nucula, F. rosamiae, F. peasei and F. sykesi differ in 1.63-1.93:1. Slender, lanceolate, shoulder weakly many respects su ch as bread th and height of the shell, sloping, weakly concave. axial and spiral sculpture and mainly by having Greyish-white or tan with lighter colored primary different protoconch whorls, small, rounded and spiral cards. Aperture light brown within. paucispiral in F. nucula and F. peasei, conical and Spire high with 1.6 protoconch whorls and teleoconch multispiral in F. rosamiae (Figs 14, 32) and F. sykesi. up to 5 weakly angular, strongly shouldered whorls. Favartia (Pygmaepterys) paulboschi Smythe & Suture impressed, partially obscured by third primary Houart, 1984 (Figs 15-16, 28), another Favartia spiral cord (P3) of previous whorl. Protoconch small. species from Oman differs in having a relatively Whorls with a single strong but narrow adapical keel. narrower shell vs its height, broader and flat primary Terminallip thin, erect, weakly curved. spiral cards, fewer or absence of secondary cards, Axial sculpture of teleoconch whorls consisting of narrower varices with more adapically recurved prominent, narrow varices, each with short, scabrous, shoulder spine, and relatively shorter and broader open spinelets decreasing in strength and length siphonal canal. abapically, connected to each other with scabrous Favartia (F.) colombi was also confused with, and flange. Nine varices from first to third teleoconch wrongly identified as F. (P.) yemenensis Houart & whorl, decreasing to 6-8 on fourth whorl and 4 or 5 on Wranik, 1989 (Figs 17-18, 29) (Houart, in litt.) which last whorl. Spiral sculpture of high, strong, narrow, also has a keeled protoconch, and therefore was also smooth primary cards and occasionally very narrow illustrated as Pygmaepterys yemenensis in Bosch et al. secondary cards. First and second whorls with visible (1995: 120). However, F. yemenensis differs from F. P 1 and P2 or P 1-P3. Third and fourth wh oris of colombi n. sp. in having a more angular and broader juvenile specimens with Pl, P2, s2, P3, P4, P5, P6, shell with higher and narrower varices, in having a ADP and MP. Fifth whorl with Pl, (sl), P2, s2, P3, comparatively broader aperture, a longer siphonal (s3), P4, P5, s5, P6, (s6), ADP, MP, ABP. Shoulder canal and more numerous secondary spiral cards. ramp smooth except for axial varices. Pl-P4 almost Favartia (Pygmaepterys) adenensis (Fig. 19) also similar in size and strength, P4 and P5 close to each occur in this area but is very different and does not other, P5 weakly narrower, P6 narrower spiral cord, need to be compared here. almost half the size of Pl-P4; ADP and MP broad. Primary cards more obvious on adapertural part of Etymology. colombi: Named after Jacques Colomb varices. Secondary cards very narrow, only obvious (Marseille, France) who collected severa! specimens on variêes. of the new species in Masirah, together with the junior Aperture moderately small, ovate. Columellar lip au thor. narrow, smooth, rim partially erect at abapical extremity, otherwise adherent. Anal notch shallow, Favartia (Favartia) roseotincta n.sp. broad. Outer lip weakly erect, weakly crenulated, with Figs 7-12, 30 weak, elongate denticles within: ID, Dl or Dl split, D2 split, D3 split, D4 and D5.
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