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18 January 2023 Fusceulimoides kohtsukai gen. et sp. nov., a Minute Eulimid Gastropod Parasitic on the Little Brittle Star Ophiactis savignyi in Central Japan
Tsuyoshi Takano, Yasunori Kano, Takanobu Mogi, Masanori Okanishi
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Abstract

Gastropods of over a dozen genera in the family Eulimidae have been identified as parasites of brittle stars, and many more remain to be discovered and described for a comprehensive understanding of the evolutionary history of their host–parasite relationships. In this study, we describe Fusceulimoides kohtsukai gen. et sp. nov., parasitic on the little brittle star, Ophiactis savignyi (Ophiactidae), in Kanagawa, central Japan. The new genus is distinguished from other eulimid genera by the combination of following seven conchological characters: (1) a very small size of up to 1.7 mm high, (2) a colorless translucent appearance, (3) a conical pupiform shape with a paucispiral protoconch, (4) slightly convex teleoconch whorls, (5) a remarkably large body whorl occupying 65–70% of the total shell height, (6) a broad, somewhat squarish and laterally expanded aperture with a strongly curved outer lip, and (7) a developed parietal callus without an indentation or depression in the umbilical area. A multi-locus molecular phylogeny revealed its distant relationship to Hemiliostraca + Pyramidelloides, a previously known clade of ophiuroid parasites, thereby suggesting multiple origins of this host–parasite association in Eulimidae.

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Tsuyoshi Takano, Yasunori Kano, Takanobu Mogi, and Masanori Okanishi "Fusceulimoides kohtsukai gen. et sp. nov., a Minute Eulimid Gastropod Parasitic on the Little Brittle Star Ophiactis savignyi in Central Japan," Zoological Science 40(1), 64-69, (18 January 2023). https://doi.org/10.2108/zs220050
Received: 31 May 2022; Accepted: 19 September 2022; Published: 18 January 2023
KEYWORDS
Echinodermata
Gastropoda
micromolluscs
molecular phylogeny
Ophiuroidea
parasite
protoconch
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