Eulimids (Gastropoda, Eulimidae) on the Sea Cucumber Holothuria mexicana (Ludwig, 1875) (Holothuroidea, Holothuriidae) in Belize

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 26 Oct 2018Publisher:Pensoft PublishersJournal:Check List, volume 14, pages 923-931 (eissn: 1809-127X,

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Authors: Leonardo Santos de Souza; Arlenie Rogers; Jean-François Hamel; Annie Mercier;

doi: 10.15560/14.5.923

Eulimids (Gastropoda, Eulimidae) on the Sea Cucumber Holothuria mexicana (Ludwig, 1875) (Holothuroidea, Holothuriidae) in Belize

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Abstract

This study presents new records for 4 eulimid species (Gastropoda, Eulimidae) including Melanella eburnea (Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1824), Melanella hypsela (Verrill & Bush, 1900), Melanella sp., and Eulimostraca encalada Espinosa, Ortea & Magaña, 2006 found on the body wall of the sea cucumber Holothuria mexicana in Belize. Three of these records (M. hypsela, M. eburnea, and E. encalada) represent a first for the Western Caribbean ecoregion and close a distributional gap for these species in the Caribbean. The geographic distribution of M. eburnea is thereby expanded by ~800 km; M. hypsela by ~1,200 km and E. encalada by ~970 km in the Tropical Northwestern Atlantic province. This article presents for the first time H. mexicana as a new host record for E. encalada.

Related Organizations

University of Belize
Belize
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Canada
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil

Keywords

Melanella, parasitic gastropods, shell morphology, QH301-705.5, Eulimostraca, Caenogastropoda, Vanikoroidea, Biology (General), Caribbean fauna.

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