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Mitt. Mus. Nat.kd. Berl., Zool. Reihe 81 (2005) 2, 145–166 / DOI 10.1002/mmnz.200510009<br />
Aplacophoran Mollusca in the Natur<strong>al</strong> History Museum Berlin.<br />
An annotated cat<strong>al</strong>ogue of Thiele’s type specimens, with a brief review<br />
of “Aplacophora” classification<br />
Matthias <strong>Glaubrecht</strong>*, 1 , Lothar Maitas 1 & Luitfried v. S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen**, 2<br />
1 Department of M<strong>al</strong>acozoology, Museum of Natur<strong>al</strong> History, Humboldt University, Inv<strong>al</strong>i<strong>de</strong>nstraße 43, D-10115 Berlin,<br />
Germany<br />
2 Institut für Zoologie, Universität Wien, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria<br />
Received January 2005, accepted April 2005<br />
Published online 08. 09. 2005<br />
With 2 figures<br />
Key words: Systematization, cladistic an<strong>al</strong>yses, Solenogastres (¼ Neomeniomorpha), Caudofoveata (¼ Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmomorpha),<br />
Aculifera, Amphineura, Johannes Thiele, Ernst Vanhöffen, First German South Polar Expedition, “Gauss”, “V<strong>al</strong>divia”.<br />
Abstract<br />
Aplacophoran molluscs are a sm<strong>al</strong>l, often neglected and still poorly known but phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic<strong>al</strong>ly important bas<strong>al</strong> group, with<br />
taxa possessing morphologic<strong>al</strong> characters consi<strong>de</strong>red essenti<strong>al</strong> for the reconstruction of the bas<strong>al</strong> Mollusca and their evolution.<br />
Currently, in most textbooks of zoology and major m<strong>al</strong>acologic<strong>al</strong> treatise Solenogastres and Caudofoveata are viewed as constituting<br />
a monophyl<strong>et</strong>ic cla<strong>de</strong> c<strong>al</strong>led Aplacophora Von Ihering, 1876, <strong>al</strong>though evi<strong>de</strong>nce is available to the contrary, suggesting<br />
the latter to be a paraphyl<strong>et</strong>ic gra<strong>de</strong>. Accordingly, the hitherto accepted “Aplacophora” may consist of two Recent, diphyl<strong>et</strong>ic<br />
taxa, viz. Solenogastres Gegenbaur, 1878 (sensu Simroth, 1893) or Neomeniomorpha Pelseneer, 1906 (<strong>al</strong>so c<strong>al</strong>led<br />
Ventroplicida Bo<strong>et</strong>tger, 1955) and Caudofoveata Bo<strong>et</strong>tger, 1955 or Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmomorpha Pelseneer, 1906. The Museum of<br />
Natur<strong>al</strong> History Berlin (formerly Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum Berlin, ZMB) houses rich type materi<strong>al</strong> essenti<strong>al</strong>ly of Solenogastres on<br />
which to a substanti<strong>al</strong> <strong>de</strong>gree the preeminent German m<strong>al</strong>acologist Johannes Thiele (1860–1935), working as curator in this<br />
collection from 1905 on, has based his respective systematic accounts of that time. A review given here briefly outlines the<br />
historic<strong>al</strong> <strong>de</strong>velopment of knowledge on the systematics and phylogeny of aplacophoran molluscs <strong>al</strong>lowing two conclusions:<br />
First, that evi<strong>de</strong>n<strong>de</strong>ntly Thiele struggled with the very same problems of molluscan classification as we still do more than a<br />
century of zoologic<strong>al</strong> systematics later; and second, that Thiele’s erroneous assumption of Solenogastres being closely related<br />
to annelids rather than molluscs resulted in the <strong>de</strong>position of aplacophoran materi<strong>al</strong> of the ZMB (and hence the late rediscovery<br />
of it) in the “Vermes” <strong>de</strong>partment, then initiating this annotated type cat<strong>al</strong>ogue. Here we provi<strong>de</strong> information on a<br />
tot<strong>al</strong> of 31 aplacophoran taxa in the ZMB, including notes on type specimens and loc<strong>al</strong>ities, their origin<strong>al</strong> <strong>de</strong>scription and<br />
current systematic placement. The majority (i.e. 25 taxa) are represented by types, essenti<strong>al</strong>ly being named by Thiele in 23<br />
cases. With the exception of one caudofoveate, <strong>al</strong>l these aplacophoran molluscs in the ZMB are Solenogastres. Following<br />
recent classification they are assigned to 20 genera. The type materi<strong>al</strong> was mainly collected by German imperi<strong>al</strong> expeditions,<br />
which are briefly reviewed, in particular the First German South Polar Expedition on board of the sailing vessel “Gauss”,<br />
1901–1903, with a tot<strong>al</strong> of 15 new aplacophoran species, <strong>al</strong>l from the very same type loc<strong>al</strong>ity near the Antarctic Gaussberg<br />
volcano at 66 2 0 S, 89 38 0 E, collected by the expedition’s biologist Ernst Vanhöffen.<br />
Introduction<br />
Aplacophorans are vermiform (i.e. wormshaped),<br />
shell-less, often <strong>de</strong>ep-sea and bottomfeeding<br />
anim<strong>al</strong>s with a phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic<strong>al</strong>ly bas<strong>al</strong> position<br />
in the Mollusca. Instead of the shell pro-<br />
* Corresponding author: e-mail: matthias.glaubrecht@museum.hu-Berlin.<strong>de</strong><br />
** e-mail: luitfried.s<strong>al</strong>vini-plawen@univie.ac.at<br />
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tection found in most other molluscs, their slen<strong>de</strong>r<br />
body is provi<strong>de</strong>d with a mantle cover of a<br />
chitinous cuticle invested with numerous aragonitic<br />
integument<strong>al</strong> sclerites (i.e. “spicules”, “sc<strong>al</strong>es”<br />
and “needles”). In addition, they exhibit epi<strong>de</strong>rm<strong>al</strong><br />
papillae (Solenogastres), a typic<strong>al</strong> t<strong>et</strong>raneu-<br />
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r<strong>al</strong> nervous system, a radula with different numbers<br />
of te<strong>et</strong>h per row, as well as – uniquely<br />
among molluscs – a reproductive system with<br />
gonads emptying into the pericard and secundary<br />
gam<strong>et</strong>oducts; for d<strong>et</strong>ailed accounts on anatomic<strong>al</strong><br />
characters in aplacophoran molluscs see the gener<strong>al</strong><br />
treatments e.g. by Simroth (1893b), Thiele<br />
(1913c, 1925), Hoffmann (1929), Fischer-Pi<strong>et</strong>te &<br />
Franc (1960), Hyman (1967), S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(1967, 1971, 1972, 1985), Scheltema <strong>et</strong> <strong>al</strong>. (1994)<br />
and Scheltema (1998).<br />
Although aplacophoran molluscs are a sm<strong>al</strong>l<br />
group of anim<strong>al</strong>s ranging from 1 mm to 30 cm,<br />
and are only rarely preserved even in major museum<br />
collections, they actu<strong>al</strong>ly represent a phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
highly important group, with constituent<br />
taxa possessing morphologic<strong>al</strong> characters<br />
consi<strong>de</strong>red essenti<strong>al</strong> for the reconstruction of the<br />
evolution of Mollusca; see e.g. recent reviews<br />
and discussions in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1967, 1972,<br />
1985, 2003a), Scheltema (1978, 1993, 1996), Ivanov<br />
(1996), S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen & Steiner (1996) and<br />
Haszprunar (2000).<br />
However, the curious and unique mixture of<br />
plesiomorphic and <strong>de</strong>rived features of aplacophorans<br />
have contributed to long-standing disputes<br />
as to the phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic relationships not<br />
only to other mollusc groups but <strong>al</strong>so among<br />
these shell-less taxa that apparently modified<br />
many of their anatomic<strong>al</strong> characteristics in dramatic<strong>al</strong><br />
ways. Ongoing controversies inclu<strong>de</strong> the<br />
question of the v<strong>al</strong>idity of the Aculifera or Amphineura<br />
concepts (the latter going back to Ihering<br />
(1876)), that both propose Aplacophora Ihering,<br />
1876 and Polyplacophora Gray, 1821 as<br />
a<strong>de</strong>lphotaxa, or the question wh<strong>et</strong>her Aplacophora<br />
are monophyl<strong>et</strong>ic.<br />
While molecular phylogeny point to a diphyl<strong>et</strong>ic<br />
origin, it was unable to propose probable<br />
sister group relationships to other molluscan<br />
groups (for reasons given below). Most currently<br />
used text books in zoology (e.g. Götting 1985,<br />
1996; Brusca & Brusca 2003) and some monographic<br />
m<strong>al</strong>acologic<strong>al</strong> accounts (e.g. Scheltema<br />
1996, 1998, 2001) thus continue to perceive<br />
Aplacophora and Aculifera as monophyl<strong>et</strong>ic<br />
taxa. This conservative view is largely ignoring<br />
available evi<strong>de</strong>nce for an <strong>al</strong>ternative systematization<br />
according to cladistic an<strong>al</strong>yses that suggest<br />
the latter two taxa being paraphyl<strong>et</strong>ic assemblages<br />
(i.e. gra<strong>de</strong>s) only, both representing bas<strong>al</strong>,<br />
in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt off-shoots of Mollusca (S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
& Steiner 1996; Haszprunar 2000). The unresolved<br />
phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic issues currently compromise<br />
our un<strong>de</strong>rstanding of molluscan origin and<br />
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early evolution; for a recent discussion in a<br />
broa<strong>de</strong>r molluscan framework see e.g. S<strong>al</strong>vini-<br />
Plawen & Steiner (1996), S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1990)<br />
and Lindberg & Pon<strong>de</strong>r (1996).<br />
The systematics within aplacophoran molluscs<br />
is <strong>al</strong>so partly unresolved. According to tradition<strong>al</strong><br />
knowledge the aplacophoran molluscs<br />
comprise two higher level taxa (subclasses or<br />
proper classes) with strongly distinct anatomic<strong>al</strong><br />
habitus and habits. In most classifications these<br />
taxa are separated as Solenogastres Gegenbaur,<br />
1878 (sensu nomine Simroth, 1893) and Caudofoveata<br />
Bo<strong>et</strong>tger, 1956. The naming and separation<br />
of both groups – that were first discovered<br />
in Scandinavian waters in 1844 (Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma nitidulum<br />
Lovén, 1845) and 1875 (Neomenia carinata<br />
Tullberg), respectively – refers to the presence<br />
of a sm<strong>al</strong>l foot within a ventr<strong>al</strong> groove in<br />
Solenogastres (thus “Furchenfüßer” or “Bauchfurcher”<br />
in German) or its absence in Caudofoveata<br />
(“Schildfüßer”). Solenogastres lack a cuticular<br />
or<strong>al</strong> shield and posterior ctenidia, live<br />
mostly cnidarivore and even epizoic on anim<strong>al</strong><br />
colonies (such as Octocor<strong>al</strong>lia and Hydrozoa) or<br />
benthic and are hermaphrodtites. In contrast, a<br />
cuticular or<strong>al</strong> or ped<strong>al</strong> shield and paired ctenidia<br />
are present in the Caudofoveata which live<br />
benthic and burrowing in marine soft sediments<br />
where they move by hydrostatic action; the latter<br />
are micro-omnivore to micro-carnivore (feeding<br />
on <strong>de</strong>bris, foraminiferans and other sm<strong>al</strong>l organisms)<br />
and are of separate sex.<br />
Unfortunately, our knowledge of the biology<br />
of aplacophorans is still fragmentary. While only<br />
about 120 species of Caudofoveata are known so<br />
far, about 240 species of Solenogastres have<br />
been named, with new ones currently un<strong>de</strong>r <strong>de</strong>scription.<br />
This relation in species number is <strong>al</strong>so<br />
more or less reflected by the extant historic<strong>al</strong><br />
materi<strong>al</strong> in the ZMB where Solenogastres largely<br />
dominate (see below). Undoubtedly, the latter<br />
taxon is not only specious but <strong>al</strong>so more diverse<br />
in respect to habitats used, which can be<br />
benthic, epizoic, and meiofaun<strong>al</strong> or even burrowing.<br />
In recent years sever<strong>al</strong> new additions come<br />
from various regions of the world, as is evi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
from the <strong>de</strong>scriptions of new taxa of different<br />
Solenogastres from Norway (Handl & S<strong>al</strong>vini-<br />
Plawen 2001, 2002), from the Mediterranean Sea<br />
(S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 2003b) from the Western Indian<br />
Ocean (Todt & S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 2003), from the<br />
southern hemisphere (S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen & Paar-<br />
Gausch 2004) and from various other regions<br />
(S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 2004), as well as Caudofoveata
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(Procha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmatidae) of the Atlantic Ocean<br />
and Mediterranean Sea (Scheltema & Ivanov<br />
2000) or the Indian and Pacific Oceans (Ivanov<br />
& Scheltema 2002, 2004). Apart from the monograph<br />
of antarctic-subantarctic Solenogastres<br />
with 75 new species (S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 1978) another<br />
striking example for the recent increase in<br />
knowledge is the Austr<strong>al</strong>ian region, where apparently<br />
a rich and diverse fauna exists in the southeast<br />
of the continent with at least 32 species in<br />
14 or more genera, some still awaiting <strong>de</strong>scription<br />
(see Scheltema 2001). Prior to this recent<br />
survey only two species were recor<strong>de</strong>d by Thiele<br />
(1897), viz. Notomenia clavigera and “Proneomenia”<br />
(¼ Epimenia) austr<strong>al</strong>is of which the types<br />
are extant in the ZMB collection (see below).<br />
Irrespective of their rare representation in<br />
most collections, aplacophorans form a numeric<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
sm<strong>al</strong>l but consistent <strong>de</strong>ep-sea faun<strong>al</strong> element;<br />
some taxa are apparently common and<br />
som<strong>et</strong>imes form an abundant part of the shelf,<br />
bathy<strong>al</strong>, abyss<strong>al</strong> and had<strong>al</strong> oceanic benthic<br />
macrofauna from <strong>de</strong>pths of c. 200 m to 9000 m<br />
(see Belyaev 1966). Since representatives of both<br />
aplacophoran taxa are found in <strong>de</strong>eper water on<br />
the continent<strong>al</strong> shelf and in the <strong>de</strong>ep-sea down<br />
to the abyss<strong>al</strong> zone and even at hydrotherm<strong>al</strong><br />
vents, they are gener<strong>al</strong>ly not only less accessible<br />
than other molluscs; since they are often sm<strong>al</strong>l,<br />
with many being less than five millim<strong>et</strong>ers (but<br />
<strong>al</strong>so reach exception<strong>al</strong>ly 300 mm), they certainly<br />
represent a neglected part of the Mollusca; for a<br />
review of the biology of aplacophorans see, for<br />
example, S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1971, 1985) and Scheltema<br />
(2001).<br />
Not only recent discoveries of new taxa have<br />
spurred aplacophoran research, but <strong>al</strong>so renewed<br />
interest in the phylogeny of m<strong>et</strong>azoans in gener<strong>al</strong><br />
and mollusca in particular. Clearly, their systematics<br />
with respect to the new findings is still in<br />
flux and continuously has to be adapted. However,<br />
in view of the fact that tradition<strong>al</strong> classifications<br />
did apparently neither reflect the phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic<br />
affinities among nor within the two major<br />
groups Solenogastres and Caudofoveata, the actu<strong>al</strong><br />
systematics in gener<strong>al</strong> appears to be in accordance<br />
with computerized cladistic an<strong>al</strong>ysis<br />
(S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 2003a).<br />
Nevertheless, this situation <strong>al</strong>l the more<br />
strengthens the importance of historic<strong>al</strong> museum<br />
materi<strong>al</strong>. The recent interest in aplacophoran<br />
classification often necessitates the re-examination<br />
of this archiv<strong>al</strong> materi<strong>al</strong> in particular of the<br />
many taxa of Solenogastres named by one of the<br />
former leading m<strong>al</strong>acologists, Johannes Thiele.<br />
This re-examination of ZMB materi<strong>al</strong> resulted,<br />
for example, in the recent transfer and re-<strong>de</strong>scription<br />
as type species of a new genus, as in<br />
the case of Thieleherpia thulensis (Thiele 1900)<br />
by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (2004: 86), and in the erection<br />
of a new family Notomediidae, based on the reexamination<br />
of the type species of the respective<br />
genus Notomenia clavigera Thiele, 1897 (see S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
2004: 89). The revision of earlier <strong>de</strong>scriptions<br />
in light of new materi<strong>al</strong>, collections<br />
and taxa <strong>de</strong>scribed will eventu<strong>al</strong>ly <strong>al</strong>low more<br />
accurate systematics at the generic and family<br />
level as shown, for example, recently in the Clavibelonia<br />
(cf. S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 2004). Again, this<br />
un<strong>de</strong>rscores the importance of historic<strong>al</strong> collections<br />
such as Thiele’s type materi<strong>al</strong> of aplacophorans.<br />
Therefore, the objective in the present paper<br />
is twofold. The Museum of Natur<strong>al</strong> History of<br />
Berlin (formerly Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum Berlin,<br />
ZMB) houses rich type materi<strong>al</strong> of aplacophorans,<br />
particularly Solenogastres, which are evi<strong>de</strong>ntly<br />
of basic importance for any systematic<br />
ev<strong>al</strong>uation of these molluscs. This materi<strong>al</strong> stems<br />
to a substanti<strong>al</strong> <strong>de</strong>gree from the systematic work<br />
of the former curator of the Berlin M<strong>al</strong>acologic<strong>al</strong><br />
Collection, Johannes Thiele (1860–1935), who<br />
was certainly one of the preeminent m<strong>al</strong>acologists<br />
of the twenti<strong>et</strong>h century. Following positions<br />
as assistant in the invertebrate section of<br />
the Dres<strong>de</strong>n Museum für Tierkun<strong>de</strong> (1891–<br />
1895), Strassburg’s Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Institute (1895–<br />
1896) and Göttingen’s Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Institute<br />
(1896–1898), Thiele took a position as a lecturer<br />
at the Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Institute in Berlin in spring<br />
1898, before starting as a scientific collaborator<br />
or helper at the Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum in Berlin in<br />
spring 1899, where he became Research Assistant<br />
in 1900, then curator of the Crustacea Section<br />
in 1903, before he fin<strong>al</strong>ly took charge of the<br />
Mollusk Section in 1905, after the <strong>de</strong>ath of<br />
Eduard von Martens (1831–1904). Thiele<br />
worked there <strong>al</strong>so after his offici<strong>al</strong> r<strong>et</strong>irement (in<br />
1925) until his <strong>de</strong>ath in 1935. For a brief biography,<br />
including a bibliography, see e.g. Bieler &<br />
Boss (1989).<br />
The Solenogastres were among the molluscan<br />
groups Thiele paid particular attention to, culminating<br />
in his revision of this taxon in Das Tierreich<br />
(Thiele 1913c). Among the tot<strong>al</strong> of 291<br />
genus-level taxa in the phylum Mollusca introduced<br />
by Thiele, there are 11 aplacophoran<br />
names (see Boss & Bieler 1991), to which at<br />
least 24 new Solenogastres species names by<br />
Thiele can be ad<strong>de</strong>d according to the materi<strong>al</strong><br />
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presented herein. First, we give an annotated<br />
cat<strong>al</strong>ogue of the ZMB type materi<strong>al</strong> with notes<br />
on the type specimens, including their origin<strong>al</strong><br />
status and references (i.e. author and bibliographic<br />
source), type loc<strong>al</strong>ities, the nature of the<br />
extant type materi<strong>al</strong> and current systematic placement<br />
and taxonomic status of the taxa. Second,<br />
we aim to place these taxa within the framework<br />
of the current systematic knowledge on<br />
the phylogeny of aplacophoran molluscs by reviewing<br />
the <strong>de</strong>velopment of this knowledge, including<br />
an outline of the results of recent cladistic<br />
an<strong>al</strong>yses. This annotated cat<strong>al</strong>ogue of aplacophoran<br />
types continues earlier compilations of molluscan<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> in the ZMB (see bibliography of R.<br />
Kilias (1929–1999) in <strong>Glaubrecht</strong> 2001). It adds<br />
to those cat<strong>al</strong>ogues of other less species-rich<br />
groups, such as Polyplacophora (Kilias 1995a),<br />
Scaphopoda (Kilias 1995b), but <strong>al</strong>so Ceph<strong>al</strong>opoda<br />
(<strong>Glaubrecht</strong> & S<strong>al</strong>cedo-Vargas 2000; Köhler &<br />
<strong>Glaubrecht</strong> 2004), whereas the extremely rare<br />
Monoplacophora are not represented in the<br />
ZMB.<br />
Brief review of the history of classification<br />
in aplacophoran molluscs<br />
Seit ich angefangen, mich mit <strong>de</strong>r Anatomie<br />
von Mollusken zu beschäftigen, ist es mein Bestreben<br />
gewesen, über die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen<br />
<strong>de</strong>s ganzen Stammes wie einzelner<br />
Gruppen ins Klare zu kommen.<br />
Johannes Thiele, 1894: 222<br />
Representatives of the two major aplacophoran<br />
molluscs were first published from Scandinavian<br />
waters in 1845 and 1875, respectively, and subsequently<br />
recognized increasingly often in dredged<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> from oceanographic expeditions. For the<br />
first time, Heinrich Simroth (1893a) not only discussed<br />
the then available morphologic<strong>al</strong> data on<br />
aplacophorans but ad<strong>de</strong>d tentatively a first “Versuch<br />
eines Systems” in listing the known genera<br />
according to their geographic<strong>al</strong> occurrence, i.e.<br />
as nordic and mediterranean forms. This not<br />
being a systematization in the strict sense, it was<br />
an early approach more to compile rather than<br />
to classify the <strong>de</strong>scribed taxa; for his exten<strong>de</strong>d<br />
systematization see Simroth (1893b: 226–233).<br />
Thiele (1902c) is often cited with the conclusion<br />
from his first account on the systematic placement<br />
of the Solenogastres in connection with the phylogeny<br />
of the Mollusca that aplacophoran species<br />
are not molluscs (e.g. Scheltema 1996: 57). In<strong>de</strong>ed,<br />
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in his fin<strong>al</strong> statement Thiele (1902c: 455) proposed<br />
explicitly (and printed in bold) that “Solenogastres<br />
are a group of worms closely related to annelids<br />
and gordiids, connecting those – by the relationship<br />
of the uterus and the pericard as well as the<br />
init<strong>al</strong> stages of a radula organisation – to the molluscs,<br />
among which the chitons are particularly closely<br />
related to them through the preservation of the<br />
later<strong>al</strong> cords [of the nervous system]”; [translated<br />
from the German origin<strong>al</strong> – M.G.]. In his phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic<br />
tree, printed as text-figure in Thiele (1902c:<br />
438) and following contemporay perception of<br />
phylogen<strong>et</strong>ics, he <strong>de</strong>picted this hypothesis by placing<br />
Solenogastres among the Vermes, as a late offshoot<br />
from a branch eventu<strong>al</strong>ly leading to the<br />
Mollusca.<br />
However, Thiele’s reservations as to the placement<br />
of Solenogastres within molluscs go back<br />
to his earliest accounts published in 1891 and<br />
1892, when he suggested that “Wurmmollusken”<br />
(i.e. worm-shaped molluscs) are the Amphineura<br />
of H. von Ihering with the two constituent or<strong>de</strong>rs<br />
Solenogastres or Aplacophora and the Polyplacophora<br />
(Thiele 1892). He viewed Solenogastres<br />
as more primitive and the amphineurans in an<br />
intermediate and transition<strong>al</strong> position – as soc<strong>al</strong>led<br />
“Ûbergangsformen” (Thiele 1892) – b<strong>et</strong>ween<br />
annelids and molluscs (see <strong>al</strong>so Thiele<br />
1891: 521). Later, Thiele (1895: 867) conclu<strong>de</strong>d<br />
from his ongoing dissections of aplacophorans<br />
that “Solenogastres are no molluscs because they<br />
lack the typic<strong>al</strong> molluscan characters” [translated<br />
from the German origin<strong>al</strong>]. In addition, Thiele<br />
(1895: 869) suggested to transfer Solenogastres<br />
to the “worms” (i.e. Annelida), thus, <strong>al</strong>so breaking<br />
up the Amphineura.<br />
He continued to stress this view for the rest of<br />
his life, as is evi<strong>de</strong>nt, for example, from his accounts<br />
on Solenogastres in Thiele (1925: 13),<br />
where he perceived them – according to then<br />
prevailing thinking – as “phylogen<strong>et</strong>ische Ausgangsform”,<br />
i.e. not only as hypoth<strong>et</strong>ic<strong>al</strong> but still<br />
extant evolutionary ancestor to the Mollusca (his<br />
“Elternform”, see Thiele 1891: 480), with close<br />
affinity now to turbellarian worms. Thiele’s position<br />
is <strong>al</strong>so evi<strong>de</strong>nt from the introductory statement<br />
in his last contribution on Solenogastres<br />
(Thiele 1933: 144). He was followed in his view,<br />
for example, by Nierstrasz (1909–1910) and<br />
Odhner (1921) but not Heath (1911), while e.g.<br />
Hans Hoffmann (1929) expressed an opposed<br />
opinion in his critic<strong>al</strong> ev<strong>al</strong>uation of the “Amphineura”<br />
discussion; for an historic<strong>al</strong> review see<br />
e.g. Hoffmann (1929, 1937) and in particular S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(1967, 1972).
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It was only consequent from this, <strong>al</strong>beit erroneous,<br />
hypothesis that Thiele (1929) did not inclu<strong>de</strong><br />
aplacophorans in his Handbuch <strong>de</strong>r Systematischen<br />
Weichtierkun<strong>de</strong>, which started<br />
accordingly with the Loricata Schumacher, 1817<br />
(¼ Polyplacophora Gray, 1821) interpr<strong>et</strong>ed by<br />
him as most primitive and true representatives of<br />
the phylum Mollusca. In the second volume of<br />
his Handbuch, Thiele (1935: 1074) for the last<br />
time outlined the phylogeny of the Mollusca,<br />
stating that the Solenogastres cannot be viewed<br />
as <strong>de</strong>rived from shelled anim<strong>al</strong>s due to, for example,<br />
their peculiar hautmuskelschlauch<br />
(p. 1073) and because of other characteristic anatomic<strong>al</strong><br />
features, thus repeating that they are to<br />
be perceived as “Vermes” and exclu<strong>de</strong>d from<br />
the Mollusca (p. 1074).<br />
Two conclusions can be drawn from this. First,<br />
evi<strong>de</strong>n<strong>de</strong>ntly, Thiele and his contemporaries<br />
struggled with quite similar problems of molluscan<br />
classification as we still do over a century of zoologic<strong>al</strong><br />
systematics later, viz. monophyly vs. paraphyly<br />
of the aplacophorans, their relationship to<br />
Polyplacophora within the Amphineura and/or<br />
Aculifera concept and the ancestry of the Mollusca<br />
within the m<strong>et</strong>azoans, in particular their relationship<br />
with Annelida. And second, Thiele’s erroneous<br />
assumption of Solenogastres being<br />
“Vermes” resulted in the <strong>de</strong>position of aplacophoran<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> of the ZMB, and hence the late<br />
re-discovery of it, in the “Vermes” <strong>de</strong>partment<br />
that initiating this annotated type cat<strong>al</strong>ogue.<br />
The first h<strong>al</strong>f century of research on aplacophoran<br />
classification was dominated by the practice<br />
to consi<strong>de</strong>r <strong>al</strong>l “worm-like” molluscs as Solenogastres,<br />
thus including <strong>al</strong>so those taxa later to<br />
be distinguished as Caudofoveata; see e.g. treatments<br />
by Simroth (1893b), Thiele (e.g. 1902c,<br />
1913c), Nierstrasz (1908) and Heath (1911).<br />
Thiele (1913c) distinguished four taxa among this<br />
paraphyl<strong>et</strong>ic group, the Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmatidae, Neomeniidae,<br />
Proneomeniidae, and Lepidomeniidae.<br />
Later, Thiele (1932) suggested to separate five<br />
families within the aplacophorans (<strong>al</strong>l consi<strong>de</strong>red<br />
by him to represent Solenogastres), viz. Neomediidae,<br />
Proneomeniidae, Gymnomeniidae, Lepidomediidae<br />
and Cryst<strong>al</strong>lophrissontidae. The latter,<br />
however, represents Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmomorpha<br />
according to current knowledge which were subsequently<br />
separated by Bo<strong>et</strong>tger (1956); see e.g.<br />
Fischer-Pi<strong>et</strong>te & Franc (1960) and S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(1967).<br />
Following Thiele’s era, Sigurd Hoffman (1949)<br />
not only contributed essenti<strong>al</strong>ly new information<br />
on the then wi<strong>de</strong>ly neglected aplacophoran<br />
groups but <strong>al</strong>so discussed at length phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic<br />
pathways and higher classification based on comparative<br />
investigations. Others, such as in Germany<br />
Hans Hoffmann (1929, 1951) stated not to<br />
separate aplacophorans from the Mollusca and<br />
proposed to view the Solenogastres as most “primitive”<br />
group within this phylum. It was then<br />
Bo<strong>et</strong>tger (1956) and later in particular S<strong>al</strong>vini-<br />
Plawen (1967, and subsequent publications) who<br />
took up, after <strong>al</strong>most h<strong>al</strong>f a century of neglectance<br />
of this important molluscan group, again<br />
the controversies as to the monophyly and phylogeny<br />
of “Aplacophora”. In the absence of cladistic<br />
an<strong>al</strong>yses, most authors long followed the<br />
gener<strong>al</strong> assignment of <strong>al</strong>l “worm shaped” molluscs<br />
as two cla<strong>de</strong>s Solenogastres or Neomeniomorpha<br />
(or Ventroplicida Bo<strong>et</strong>tger, 1956 which<br />
is a later naming) and Caudofoveata or Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmomorpha<br />
within a monohylum Aplacophora.<br />
In contrast to these classifications of<br />
“Aplacophora” or “Aculifera”, S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(e.g. 1972, 1985, 1991) has, early and repeatedly,<br />
argued that aplacophorans are paraphyl<strong>et</strong>ic or<br />
diphyl<strong>et</strong>ic, respectively (see below).<br />
Furthermore, <strong>de</strong>spite revision (S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
1978) the systematic relationships remained<br />
partly unresolved within Solenogastres, and the<br />
status of some families was poorly un<strong>de</strong>rstood,<br />
as was recently shown, for example within the<br />
Cavibelonia by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (2004). Earlier<br />
suggestions to separate three families most likely<br />
did not reflect natur<strong>al</strong> phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic lineages (S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
1967). According to the systematization<br />
suggested by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978; see <strong>al</strong>so<br />
phylogram in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen & Steiner 1996: 31),<br />
four or<strong>de</strong>rs are to be distinguished within the Solenogastres,<br />
viz. Pholidoskepia, Neomeniamorpha<br />
(both as Aplotegmentaria) and Sterrofustia<br />
plus Cavibelonia (these two as Pachytegmentaria).<br />
Thus, the Cavibelonia, in which 11 genusgroup<br />
or families are now distinguished, replaced<br />
the Proneomeniidae s.l. and most of Neomeniidae<br />
s.l. in former systems. For discussion and references<br />
see S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978, 2003, 2004).<br />
This systematization is followed herein; see section<br />
C for a classification of the ZMB type materi<strong>al</strong>.<br />
Phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic an<strong>al</strong>yses<br />
For sever<strong>al</strong> <strong>de</strong>ca<strong>de</strong>s now two hypotheses have<br />
been discussed as to the classification reflecting<br />
phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic relationships of the two aplacophoran<br />
taxa, Solenogastres (or neomenioids) and<br />
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Caudofoveata (or cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rms). Paraphyly of<br />
the aplacophorans was proposed by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(1967, 1972) and is supported by evi<strong>de</strong>nce<br />
presented by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen & Steiner (1996)<br />
and Haszprunar (2000). It was suggested to rank<br />
Caudovofeata and Solenogastres as separate<br />
classes, and that Caudofoveata should be distinguished<br />
from the remaining molluscan classes<br />
(those named A<strong>de</strong>nopoda).<br />
In contrast, Scheltema (1978, 1993, 1996) and<br />
others continue – irrespective of her own separate<br />
treatment of both distinct groups (e.g. in<br />
Scheltema <strong>et</strong> <strong>al</strong>. 1994) – to view both taxa as<br />
subclasses within a single monophyl<strong>et</strong>ic class<br />
Aplacophora that tog<strong>et</strong>her with the Polyplacophora<br />
form a cla<strong>de</strong> Aculifera. For example,<br />
Scheltema <strong>et</strong> <strong>al</strong>. (1994: 13) consi<strong>de</strong>red them to<br />
be “speci<strong>al</strong>ized molluscs with a <strong>de</strong>rived worm<br />
shape accompanied by reduction or loss of the<br />
foot”, while other features “reflect a rather primitive<br />
molluscan state”. To account for these<br />
“otherwise apparently contradictory states”, Scheltema<br />
(1996: 57) suggested progenesis and rapid<br />
evolution. However, it should be noted here that<br />
this combination of <strong>de</strong>rived and plesiomorphic<br />
features in the grundmuster is a common biologic<strong>al</strong><br />
phenomenon long known and discussed as<br />
mosaic evolution without necessarily involving<br />
progen<strong>et</strong>ic or paedomorphic processes.<br />
Recent cladistic an<strong>al</strong>yses by both S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
& Steiner (1996) and Haszprunar (2000)<br />
found the Solenogastres in the most bas<strong>al</strong> position<br />
suggesting it to represent the earliest molluscan<br />
offshoot. At the same time the monophyly<br />
of <strong>al</strong>l remaining molluscan classes is<br />
suggested, named Hepagastr<strong>al</strong>ia by Haszprunar<br />
(2000: 125) and that way reflecting the distinct<br />
and complex subdivision of the midgut as synapomorphy.<br />
Thus, computation of <strong>al</strong>l available<br />
morphologic<strong>al</strong> data indicate that both “Aplacophora”<br />
and “Aculifera” should not be consi<strong>de</strong>red<br />
monophyl<strong>et</strong>ic cla<strong>de</strong>s, but that – following the<br />
Solenogastres as first off-shoot – the Caudofoveata<br />
are the sister group to the remaining molluscs<br />
(i.e. Testaria).<br />
Based on an<strong>al</strong>yses by Hoffman (1949) and<br />
summarised in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (2003a) it is argued<br />
that the mantle cavity in Neomeniomorpha<br />
and Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmomorpha reve<strong>al</strong>s an in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
evolutionary transformation of both taxa,<br />
and that the midgut sac in Caudofoveata is not<br />
homologous to the so-c<strong>al</strong>led digestive gland in<br />
Testaria (i.e. Placophora þ Conchifera) which,<br />
thus, cannot be interpr<strong>et</strong>ed as synapomorphy<br />
(see e.g. Haszprunar 2000). The question remains<br />
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unresolved wh<strong>et</strong>her the lack of ctenidia is a plesio-<br />
or apomorphic state in Solenogastres. In<br />
contrast, radula features (e.g. monoseri<strong>al</strong> type<br />
with median bars or two te<strong>et</strong>h with symphysis)<br />
suggest the Solenogastres to be more conservative,<br />
as is suggested in cladistic an<strong>al</strong>yses. However,<br />
this does not necessary imply that Solenogastres<br />
actu<strong>al</strong>ly represent the first (extant) offshoot<br />
within the Mollusca. Alternatively, Caudofoveata<br />
could have just evolved more dramatic<strong>al</strong>ly,<br />
in concert with the <strong>de</strong>velopment of many<br />
<strong>de</strong>rived features. As an addition<strong>al</strong> aspect, this<br />
most recent cladistic an<strong>al</strong>ysis suggests that Cavibelonia<br />
are, contrary to earlier assumptions,<br />
monophyl<strong>et</strong>ic.<br />
Different molecular m<strong>et</strong>hods have not succee<strong>de</strong>d<br />
in yielding reliable results beyond supporting<br />
that aplacophoran groups are diphyl<strong>et</strong>ic<br />
and are thus not closer related. For example,<br />
an<strong>al</strong>yses in Solenogastres suffer mainly from the<br />
fact that food materi<strong>al</strong> was sequenced instead of<br />
the aplacophorans itself (e.g. Cnidaria, see in<br />
S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 2003a; Okusu & Girib<strong>et</strong> 2003;<br />
Polycha<strong>et</strong>a for Helicoradomenia in Passamaneck<br />
<strong>et</strong> <strong>al</strong>. 2004; pers. comm. Dr. Hermann Dreyer,<br />
Univ. Wien). Another problem is that much of<br />
the archived materi<strong>al</strong> in major museum collections<br />
has gener<strong>al</strong>ly been fixed in form<strong>al</strong><strong>de</strong>hyd,<br />
which is not consi<strong>de</strong>red a suitable medium for<br />
subsequent molecular work.<br />
On the phylogeny of aplacophoran taxa<br />
Although the origins and interrelationships of<br />
the seven to eight cla<strong>de</strong>s or classes of Mollusca<br />
are discussed for over a century now, no end of<br />
this <strong>de</strong>bate is visible; for reviews and references<br />
see e.g. contributions in Taylor (1996) and <strong>al</strong>so<br />
Haszprunar (2000). While the other cla<strong>de</strong>s are<br />
broadly agreed on to represent monophyla, most<br />
recent disagreement centers around the systematics<br />
and position of aplacophoran, polyplacophoran<br />
and scaphopod molluscs. As reviewed above,<br />
cladistic an<strong>al</strong>yses finding aplacophorans to form<br />
a basic, paraphyl<strong>et</strong>ic assemblage, <strong>al</strong>so support<br />
earlier suggestions to consi<strong>de</strong>r many conditions<br />
in their organization as plesiomorphic for molluscs<br />
rather than <strong>de</strong>rived through paedomorphosis.<br />
In this context Haszprunar (2000: 127) and<br />
S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (2003a: 93) pointed out that many<br />
shared aplacophoran features can now be consi<strong>de</strong>red<br />
as characters typic<strong>al</strong> for the so-c<strong>al</strong>led and<br />
long-thought-of “hypoth<strong>et</strong>ic<strong>al</strong> ancestr<strong>al</strong> molluscs”<br />
(HAM).
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However, many issues in molluscan phylogen<strong>et</strong>ics<br />
still remain unresolved. Extremely difficult<br />
is the interpr<strong>et</strong>ation of the scarce ontogen<strong>et</strong>ic<br />
data, not only in molluscs in gener<strong>al</strong> but in the<br />
aplacophorans in particular. While for Caudofoveata<br />
only the lecithotrophic larvae of two species<br />
are known (S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 1990, Gustafson<br />
in Nielsen 1995), <strong>de</strong>velopment in Solenogastres<br />
is either lecithotrophic or direct. The ciliated,<br />
free swimming larva in some Solenogastres resembles<br />
superfici<strong>al</strong>ly the so-c<strong>al</strong>led “trochophora”<br />
larva in annelids; for a review of aplacophoran<br />
reproduction and <strong>de</strong>velopment see e.g. S<strong>al</strong>vini-<br />
Plawen (1985). The <strong>de</strong>velopment<strong>al</strong> stages in a<br />
Soleogastres was <strong>de</strong>scribed origin<strong>al</strong>ly as so-c<strong>al</strong>led<br />
“Pruvot larva” by the French m<strong>al</strong>acologist G.<br />
Pruvot (1890). He reported on a late larva (Nematomenia<br />
banyulensis) <strong>de</strong>picting seven rows of<br />
sc<strong>al</strong>es, or “plaques” as he c<strong>al</strong>led it. Although surroun<strong>de</strong>d<br />
by ambiguities and (even after a century)<br />
still in need of further substantiation, this<br />
<strong>de</strong>scription of iterated spicules arrangement has<br />
ever since been interpr<strong>et</strong>ed as being homologous<br />
with a chiton shell, thus fueling the discussion on<br />
the systematic placement of Solenogastres in relation<br />
to polyplacophorans and other Mollusca<br />
(e.g. S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 1972, 1985; S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen &<br />
Steiner 1996).<br />
Recently, Scheltema & Ivanov (2002) reported<br />
another neomenioid postlarva exhibiting six iterated,<br />
transverse groups of spicules separated by<br />
seven regions <strong>de</strong>void of spicules which they compared<br />
to the shell fields in <strong>de</strong>veloping polyplacophorans<br />
as well as the sclerite arrangement on<br />
the Cambrian fossils Wiwaxia and H<strong>al</strong>kieria. The<br />
authors suggested, <strong>al</strong>so refering to recent insight<br />
from <strong>de</strong>velopment<strong>al</strong> biology on the function of<br />
regulatory genes, that this iteration (or seri<strong>al</strong> rep<strong>et</strong>ition)<br />
in morphogenesis of ecto<strong>de</strong>rm<strong>al</strong> skel<strong>et</strong>ol<br />
structures in these taxa is a result of processes<br />
<strong>al</strong>ready present in early pre-Cambrian<br />
bilateri<strong>al</strong> anim<strong>al</strong>s and, thus, would indicate evolutionary<br />
relationships among Neomeniomorpha,<br />
Polyplacophora and early P<strong>al</strong>eozoic fossils. They<br />
suggested that these rows of transverse spicules<br />
that appear briefly in the early <strong>de</strong>velopment of<br />
some Solenogastres are expressions of genes that<br />
may be present gener<strong>al</strong>ly in aplacophorans.<br />
However, the authors failed to comment on the<br />
fact that, when assuming these features do actu<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
represent an ancient <strong>de</strong>velopment<strong>al</strong> process<br />
<strong>al</strong>so in early molluscs, then these ecto<strong>de</strong>rm<strong>al</strong><br />
iterations – <strong>al</strong>beit homologues – should be<br />
viewed as plesiomorphic. They would then not<br />
qu<strong>al</strong>ify for supporting an aplacophoran or aculi-<br />
feran assemblage. In ignorance of this it may become<br />
un<strong>de</strong>rstandable that these latter authors, in<br />
context of their new ontogen<strong>et</strong>ic data, again<br />
stress their view that aplacophorans are “<strong>de</strong>rived<br />
molluscs related to chitons and are perhaps progen<strong>et</strong>ic”<br />
(Scheltema & Ivanov 2002: 7).<br />
In summary, recent phylogen<strong>et</strong>ic an<strong>al</strong>yses suggest<br />
that aplacophorans are unlikely to represent<br />
a monophyl<strong>et</strong>ic cla<strong>de</strong>. Instead, among the bas<strong>al</strong><br />
molluscan groups, Solenogastres may be viewed<br />
as the most earliest off-shoot while Caudofoveata<br />
may be closer to the remaining Mollusca (y<strong>et</strong><br />
not as “Hepagastr<strong>al</strong>ia”). However, interpr<strong>et</strong>ation<br />
of character polarity as well as systematics remain<br />
controversi<strong>al</strong>.<br />
Materi<strong>al</strong> and M<strong>et</strong>hods<br />
Some aplacophoran type materi<strong>al</strong> and addition<strong>al</strong> non-type<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> (see section B below) was found by one of us<br />
(L.M.), more or less acci<strong>de</strong>nti<strong>al</strong>ly, during our on-going ev<strong>al</strong>uation<br />
(since 1997) of <strong>al</strong>l molluscan type materi<strong>al</strong>, as it was<br />
long misplaced among opistobranch materi<strong>al</strong> in cabin<strong>et</strong>s of<br />
the M<strong>al</strong>acologic<strong>al</strong> Department in the ZMB. That way, aplacophorans<br />
were at least in part hid<strong>de</strong>n to R. Kilias who started<br />
to publish, among other major gastropod groups (see bibliography<br />
in <strong>Glaubrecht</strong> 2001), <strong>al</strong>so on some minor (i.e. less<br />
speciose taxa) such as e.g. Polyplacophora (Kilias 1995a) and<br />
Scaphopoda (Kilias 1995b).<br />
As we can reconstruct from some notes accompanying this<br />
aplacophoran materi<strong>al</strong>, it was long housed, for the reason of<br />
Thiele’s explicit perception of Solenogastres not being Mollusca<br />
(see review above), in the “Vermes” <strong>de</strong>partment of the<br />
ZMB. Upon investigation we luckily found some other parts<br />
of the aplacophoran type materi<strong>al</strong> there which are now r<strong>et</strong>urned<br />
and housed tog<strong>et</strong>her with Thiele’s origin<strong>al</strong> seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
in the M<strong>al</strong>acologic<strong>al</strong> Collection as listed in the compilation<br />
below.<br />
Following sorting and inventarization of this re-discovered<br />
aplacophoran materi<strong>al</strong> done essenti<strong>al</strong>ly by L.M., a list of <strong>al</strong>l<br />
constituent lots was prepared. A first draft of this cat<strong>al</strong>ogue<br />
was sent to LvS-P in Dezember 2002, who agreed to check<br />
and comment on the taxonomic status of these taxa which<br />
was cruci<strong>al</strong> for our en<strong>de</strong>avour. The fin<strong>al</strong> version of the manuscript<br />
was written by M.G. in August 2004, with the inclusion<br />
of the introduction and the historic<strong>al</strong> parts, a review of aplacophoran<br />
classification and its role in molluscan phylogeny.<br />
This version was fin<strong>al</strong>ly again cross-checked in October 2004<br />
by LvS-P.<br />
Based on <strong>al</strong>l combined information available to us then,<br />
we found addition<strong>al</strong> type materi<strong>al</strong> of Thiele’s aplacophorans,<br />
viz. of Neomania grandis, Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia eisigi and Amphimenia<br />
neapolitana, <strong>al</strong>l <strong>de</strong>scribed by Thiele (1894), but missing<br />
from the ZMB collection, due to research facilitated by <strong>de</strong>cisive<br />
notes of LvS-P ma<strong>de</strong> 1977 in the Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum<br />
Amsterdam. It has now, after a long post-WW II odyssee,<br />
r<strong>et</strong>urned to the ZMB; for more d<strong>et</strong>ails see below un<strong>de</strong>r the<br />
species.<br />
Remarks on the origin of the Berlin type materi<strong>al</strong><br />
The type materi<strong>al</strong> that comprises compl<strong>et</strong>e anim<strong>al</strong>s,<br />
histologic<strong>al</strong> seri<strong>al</strong> sections as well as tissues<br />
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and anim<strong>al</strong> parts embed<strong>de</strong>d in paraffin blocks<br />
has diverse origins. For example, due to his early<br />
investigations of aplacophorans Thiele was provi<strong>de</strong>d,<br />
starting in the time prior to his curatori<strong>al</strong><br />
position at the ZMB in 1905, with materi<strong>al</strong> by<br />
various zoologists, as he reported in case of three<br />
newly named species of Solenogastres from Neapel<br />
(see Thiele 1894: 222–223), or in case of<br />
Anamenia amboinensis. Later, Thiele was <strong>al</strong>so a<br />
contributor of scientific <strong>de</strong>scriptions based on<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> from sever<strong>al</strong> of the German imperi<strong>al</strong><br />
expeditions around the turn of the century. In<br />
particular, he studied the aplacophorans from<br />
two major oceanographic expeditions, viz. the<br />
German Deep-Sea Expedition on board of the<br />
steamer “V<strong>al</strong>divia”, 1898–1899 (with n ¼ 3 new<br />
species), and in particular the First German<br />
South Polar Expedition, 1901–1903, on board<br />
the sailing vessel “Gauss” (with 15 new species<br />
<strong>de</strong>scribed). Thus, these German expeditions were<br />
essenti<strong>al</strong> in providing new taxa from various regions<br />
of the world and taxonomic groups. However,<br />
they are largely unknown today for various<br />
reasons and, <strong>al</strong>though being of immense historic<strong>al</strong><br />
importance, only few historians of science<br />
have <strong>de</strong><strong>al</strong>t with them y<strong>et</strong>. Here, only brief mention<br />
will be ma<strong>de</strong> of those expeditions in context<br />
cruci<strong>al</strong> for collecting Thiele’s aplacophoran materi<strong>al</strong>,<br />
with some hints at the most important available<br />
accounts.<br />
The German “Gazelle” Expedition b<strong>et</strong>ween<br />
1874 and 1876 on board of the navy corv<strong>et</strong>te<br />
S.H.S “Gazelle”, lead by Georg Emil Gustav<br />
Freiherr von Schleinitz (1834–1910), was on<br />
route around the world with a focus on research<br />
in the <strong>de</strong>ep-sea of the Atlantic and Indic Ocean,<br />
nearly at the same time as the British “Ch<strong>al</strong>lenger”<br />
expedition. One of the expeditions’ aims<br />
was to study the Venus orbit on the near-Antarctic<br />
Kerguela Island. As natur<strong>al</strong>ist the Swiss<br />
zoologist Theophil Stu<strong>de</strong>r (1845–1922) took part<br />
in the “Gazelle” expedition, who was instrument<strong>al</strong><br />
in collecting and later <strong>de</strong>scribing most of its<br />
natur<strong>al</strong> objects. An origin<strong>al</strong> expedition report<br />
can be found in Schleinitz & Rottok (1889); see<br />
<strong>al</strong>so brief accounts in Stu<strong>de</strong>r (1882) and Buchw<strong>al</strong>d<br />
(1999). Only one aplacophoran molluscs,<br />
Epimenia austr<strong>al</strong>is (Thiele 1897) from off the<br />
NW coast of Austr<strong>al</strong>ia, was <strong>de</strong>scribed and <strong>de</strong>posited<br />
in the ZMB, so we refrain here from a<br />
more d<strong>et</strong>ailed review of this en<strong>de</strong>avour. Nevertheless,<br />
the “Gazelle” marks the start of German<br />
maritime explorations later continued by two<br />
other major expeditions of zoologic<strong>al</strong> importance.<br />
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The German Deep-Sea Expedition (Deutsche<br />
Tiefsee-Expedition), on board of the research<br />
steamer “V<strong>al</strong>divia”, was on route in the Atlantic<br />
and Southern Indic Ocean from July 31, 1898 to<br />
May 1, 1899, as the first major German <strong>de</strong>ep-sea<br />
research activity subsidized by the German Empire<br />
in an nation<strong>al</strong>istic attempt to keep up with<br />
the successful <strong>de</strong>ep-sea expeditions in particular<br />
by the British, as e.g. the “Ch<strong>al</strong>lenger” expedition<br />
1872–1876. Lead by the biologist Carl Chun<br />
(1852–1914) from the University of Leipzig, the<br />
DTE was most innovative in then mo<strong>de</strong>rn echo<br />
sounding and sampling techniques and achieved<br />
important results and collections in nearly <strong>al</strong>l zoologic<strong>al</strong><br />
phyla. The materi<strong>al</strong> on which speci<strong>al</strong>ists<br />
from <strong>al</strong>l over Europe worked for the following<br />
<strong>de</strong>ca<strong>de</strong>s – among them scientists at the ZMB<br />
such as Johannes Thiele (recognized, among<br />
many other taxa, n ¼ 3 new solenogastres species)<br />
– forms today an essenti<strong>al</strong> part of the Berlin<br />
museum’s type collection. Only one example<br />
of the rich materi<strong>al</strong> provi<strong>de</strong>d by the “V<strong>al</strong>divia”<br />
expedition is reflected in the ceph<strong>al</strong>opod type<br />
collection housed in the ZMB which ren<strong>de</strong>rs it<br />
second only to the respective collection in The<br />
Natur<strong>al</strong> History Museum in London (formely<br />
British Museum of Natur<strong>al</strong> History); see <strong>Glaubrecht</strong><br />
& S<strong>al</strong>cedo-Vargas (2000) with additions in<br />
Köhler & <strong>Glaubrecht</strong> (2004). A most readable –<br />
and then very successful – travel narrative was<br />
given by Charl Chun (1900); the zoologic<strong>al</strong> results<br />
were published in 24 volumes, edited until<br />
his <strong>de</strong>ath by Chun (1902–1914) himself. On the<br />
occassion of the 100 th anniversary of the “V<strong>al</strong>divia”<br />
expedition, short historic<strong>al</strong> reviews were<br />
published recently e.g. by Kabisch (1998), Coleman<br />
(1999), and more d<strong>et</strong>ailed by Landsberg<br />
(2000). Unfortunately, however, no comprehensive<br />
treatment of this most important expedition<br />
and ev<strong>al</strong>uation of its achievements is available<br />
y<strong>et</strong>.<br />
The First German South Polar Expedition<br />
(Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition) was on route<br />
from November 11, 1901 until November 25,<br />
1903, on board the sailing vessel “Gauss”. Lead<br />
by the young German polar scientist and professor<br />
of geophysics Erich von Dryg<strong>al</strong>ski (1865–<br />
1949), it was part of the “heroic” period of polar<br />
exploration and, as one of the first truely scientific<br />
en<strong>de</strong>avours, scientific<strong>al</strong>ly highly successful.<br />
Carried out in the framework of an internation<strong>al</strong><br />
programm of geophysic<strong>al</strong> observations, the expedition<br />
was nevertheless rated a failure in Germany<br />
due to comtemporary politic<strong>al</strong> hopes for<br />
imperi<strong>al</strong>istic expansion, resulting in a lack of re-
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cognition of its merits for long; for a brief historic<strong>al</strong><br />
account <strong>al</strong>ong these lines see Lü<strong>de</strong>cke<br />
(2001) and Lü<strong>de</strong>cke <strong>et</strong> <strong>al</strong>. (2001). At the turn of<br />
the century most parts of the South Polar region<br />
were compl<strong>et</strong>ely unknown and following the<br />
“V<strong>al</strong>divia’s” successful exploration of southern<br />
regions south of the Kerguela Islands at 90 E, it<br />
was the clear aim and explicit task of the<br />
“Gauss” expedition to scientific<strong>al</strong>ly explore the<br />
South Polar area, in contrast to the geopolitic<strong>al</strong><br />
en<strong>de</strong>avour of the par<strong>al</strong>lel and comp<strong>et</strong>ing British<br />
expedition lead by Robert F<strong>al</strong>con Scott (1868–<br />
1912) on the “Discovery” who was successful in<br />
reaching south at 82 17 0 S, while Dryg<strong>al</strong>ski only<br />
ma<strong>de</strong> it to about 66 S.<br />
On board of the “Gauss” was, as the only biologist<br />
offici<strong>al</strong>ly employed, the geograph and zoologist<br />
Ernst Vanhöffen (1858–1918), who had<br />
<strong>al</strong>so been a member of the former German<br />
Deep-Sea Expedition on the “V<strong>al</strong>divia”. Educated<br />
at the University Königsberg, Eastern<br />
Prussia, un<strong>de</strong>r the influence of Richard Hertwig<br />
and Carl Chun, Vanhöffen was lecturer, assistant<br />
and honorary professor at the University Kiel<br />
from 1890 to 1906, when he became curator for<br />
Crustacea, Myriapoda and Coelenterata at the<br />
Museum of Natur<strong>al</strong> History in Berlin. He is today<br />
mostly remembered for his studies on cnidarian<br />
medusae and as member of sever<strong>al</strong> exploring<br />
expeditions, most prominently the<br />
German South Polar Expedition; for a brief biography<br />
of Vanhöffen including compl<strong>et</strong>e bibliography<br />
of his zoologic<strong>al</strong> writings see Lohmann<br />
(1918). It was Vanhöffen who collected most zoologic<strong>al</strong><br />
objects, among them <strong>al</strong>so the many aplacophorans,<br />
as is evi<strong>de</strong>nt from the origin<strong>al</strong> labels<br />
and documents. Most materi<strong>al</strong> was brought back<br />
in particular from the so-c<strong>al</strong>led “Winterlager”,<br />
when the “Gauss” became bes<strong>et</strong> by pack-ice at<br />
66 2 0 S and 89 38 0 E in the Indian sector of the<br />
Antarctic, 85 km off the Antarctic shelf, and in a<br />
region later to be c<strong>al</strong>led “Kaiser Wilhelm II.<br />
Land”. It is this the type location were the majority<br />
of the ZMB materi<strong>al</strong>, i.e. a tot<strong>al</strong> of n ¼ 15<br />
new solenogastres species were found (see d<strong>et</strong>ails<br />
in Section A), ren<strong>de</strong>ring this expedition<br />
most successful in bringing back Antarctic taxa<br />
of this interesting molluscan group. The DSE<br />
spent the Antarctic winter in 1902 on the sea ice<br />
while doing research for 50 weeks. Vanhöffen<br />
during this time conducted numerous n<strong>et</strong>tings<br />
and dredges in various <strong>de</strong>pths down to the bottom<br />
in –385 m. During one of the seven “inland”<br />
explorations by dog-sledges Dryg<strong>al</strong>ski’s expedition<br />
discovered and explored the so-c<strong>al</strong>led<br />
“Schwarzen Berg” or“Gaussberg” volcano, as it<br />
was later entered into the maps. This only area<br />
free of ice found by the expedition had an elevation<br />
of 366 m above the sea. After breaking free<br />
from the ice in early 1903 the expedition failed<br />
to find other access further south to the Antarctic<br />
and r<strong>et</strong>urned in June 1903 to South Africa<br />
and home via the Atlantic Ocean. Its scientific<br />
collections were studied and an<strong>al</strong>ysed during the<br />
subsequent three <strong>de</strong>ca<strong>de</strong>s, the results being published<br />
by Dryg<strong>al</strong>ski as editor in a tot<strong>al</strong> of 20 volumes<br />
and 2 atlantes (Dryg<strong>al</strong>ski 1905–1931); see<br />
<strong>al</strong>so Dryg<strong>al</strong>ski (1904) for an account of his twoyears<br />
Antarctic expedition. (Note that it took 85<br />
years to translate into English this semi-popular<br />
narrative of the First German South Polar Expedition<br />
which partly contributed to its neglectance<br />
in the ann<strong>al</strong>es of history of science).<br />
Another addition to the knowledge of the invertebrate<br />
fauna of polar regions came from the<br />
German Römer & Schaudinn Expedition to Arctic<br />
waters around Spitsbergen Island in 1898 on<br />
board the steamer “Helgoland”; for a travel narrative<br />
see Römer & Schaudinn (1900). Basic<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
a privat enterprise it, nevertheless, gained many<br />
zoologic<strong>al</strong> objects of interest. Among them,<br />
Thiele (1900, 1913b; see <strong>al</strong>so 1932) <strong>de</strong>scribed<br />
two new aplacophoran species.<br />
All this materi<strong>al</strong> fin<strong>al</strong>ly amounted to a tot<strong>al</strong> of<br />
n ¼ 24 new aplacophoran mollusc taxa newly <strong>de</strong>scribed<br />
by Thiele (including here <strong>al</strong>so his “kergulensis”,<br />
<strong>al</strong>beit re-<strong>de</strong>scribed only much later by<br />
S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen; see un<strong>de</strong>r the species); <strong>al</strong>l are<br />
now extant in the M<strong>al</strong>acozoologic<strong>al</strong> Collection in<br />
the ZMB.<br />
Designation of type materi<strong>al</strong><br />
Specimens of Thiele’s aplacophoran materi<strong>al</strong><br />
were stored in a sea-water/<strong>et</strong>hanol solution<br />
(“Seewasser<strong>al</strong>kohol” e.g. in Thiele 1894: 222), of<br />
which Thiele gener<strong>al</strong>ly ma<strong>de</strong> histologic<strong>al</strong> seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections himself, using a double staining agens<br />
(Boraxkarmin and M<strong>et</strong>hylenblau); this is noted<br />
as “Thiele fec.” on his origin<strong>al</strong> labels and below<br />
in Section A; an example of Thiele’s sections is<br />
illustrated in Fig. 1.<br />
In some taxa sever<strong>al</strong> specimens are registered<br />
including intact anim<strong>al</strong>s as well as histologic<strong>al</strong> seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections mounted on microscopic doublesli<strong>de</strong>s.<br />
Since the majority of Solenogastres taxa<br />
are well <strong>de</strong>scribed by their anatomic<strong>al</strong> characters<br />
only, we here follow the preferred procedure of<br />
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those parts of the materi<strong>al</strong> (the seri<strong>al</strong> sections),<br />
on which the origin<strong>al</strong> <strong>de</strong>scription was based, with<br />
most other undissected materi<strong>al</strong> being para(lecto)types.<br />
This turned out to be essenti<strong>al</strong>ly cruci<strong>al</strong><br />
in case of Dorymenia/Proneomenia antarctica<br />
Thiele and Labidoherpia/Pruvotina spinosa<br />
Thiele (for d<strong>et</strong>ails see un<strong>de</strong>r the species). Lectotype<br />
<strong>de</strong>signation are here done in accordance<br />
with the purpose of Article 74.7.3. of the current<br />
issue of the ICZN in or<strong>de</strong>r to ensure the name’s<br />
proper and consistent application.<br />
Museum co<strong>de</strong>s:<br />
USNM United States Nation<strong>al</strong> Museum of Natur<strong>al</strong> History,<br />
Smithsonian Insitution, Washington, DC, USA;<br />
ZMA Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum Amsterdam, The N<strong>et</strong>herlands;<br />
ZMB Museum of Natur<strong>al</strong> History (Museum für Naturkun<strong>de</strong>),<br />
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (formerly<br />
Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum Berlin);<br />
ZMC Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum Copenhagen, Denmark.<br />
Expedition abbreviations:<br />
DSE Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1901–1903; i.e.<br />
DTE<br />
German South Polar Expedition;<br />
Deutsche Tiefsee-Expedition, 1898–1899; i.e. German<br />
Deep Sea Expedition;<br />
“Gazelle” Expedition with the vessel “Gazelle”, 1874–1876.<br />
Section A – Alphab<strong>et</strong>ic list of Solenogastres type<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> in the M<strong>al</strong>acozoologic<strong>al</strong> Collection of<br />
the Berlin Museum of Natur<strong>al</strong> History<br />
No type materi<strong>al</strong> of the second major aplacophoran<br />
group, the Caudofoveata, is held in the<br />
ZMB (but see remark un<strong>de</strong>r Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma productum).<br />
However, some non-type materi<strong>al</strong> of<br />
Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmomorpha is present which is listed<br />
tog<strong>et</strong>her with non-type materi<strong>al</strong> of the Solenogastres<br />
in section B.<br />
Solenogastres<br />
amboinensis (Thiele, 1902a) – Anamenia<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
Proneomenia amboinensis Thiele, 1902a: 733.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Amboina”; Indonesia: Amboina;<br />
leg. Richard Semon.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.408a, part of holotype, seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections on 11 sli<strong>de</strong>s (labelled a–i “vorn”, i.e. anterior<br />
part of anim<strong>al</strong>, and a–e “hinten”, i.e. posterior part); ZMB<br />
Moll. 105.408b, part of holotype, in <strong>et</strong>hanol.<br />
C o m m e n t s : Type species of Anamenia Nierstrasz,<br />
1908.<br />
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antarctica (Thiele, 1913a) – Dorymenia<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
Proneomenia antarctica Thiele, 1913a: 57, pl. IV, fig. 11;<br />
pl. VII, figs 10–13; pl. VIII, figs 1–3, 23, 31.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis: Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 20S, 89 380E; DSE, Twist 385 m, July<br />
31, 1902; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.415a, part of holotype, seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections on 11 sli<strong>de</strong>s (<strong>al</strong>l were origin<strong>al</strong>ly marked as<br />
“types”; n ¼ 6 are labelled a–f, anterior part; plus n ¼ 5 labelled<br />
a–e, posterior part, with b–d addition<strong>al</strong>ly marked as<br />
“Q 1925 g–i”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.415b, 4 vi<strong>al</strong>s with one (1. vi<strong>al</strong>) containing<br />
presumably the remaining, non-sectioned part of the holotype.<br />
1. vi<strong>al</strong>: 06. XII. 1902, Twist 385 m, part of specimen, dark coloured<br />
(holotype?);<br />
2. vi<strong>al</strong>: 12. X. 1902, Twist 385 m, part of specimen, light coloured<br />
(could <strong>al</strong>so be D. hoffmani);<br />
3. vi<strong>al</strong>: 31. XII. 1902, paratype, n ¼ 1 specimen;<br />
4. vi<strong>al</strong>: 12. X. 1602, n ¼ 1 specimen in <strong>et</strong>hanol, Thiele fec.<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.415c, 4 Paraffin blocks; two blocks each<br />
marked “grosse glatte Promeomenia antarct. 06. XII. 1902<br />
Vanhöffen” and two blocks marked “Promeomenia? antarctica<br />
10. XII. 1902”; paratypes? (but could <strong>al</strong>so be D. hoffmani).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Re-examination and d<strong>et</strong>ermination<br />
as Dorymenia antarctica (Thiele, 1913a)<br />
by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978), who was then provi<strong>de</strong>d,<br />
unfortunately, with only part of the holotype<br />
seri<strong>al</strong> sections by R. Kilias (n ¼ 3 sli<strong>de</strong>s,<br />
with label “Q1925 g–i), thus his statement “von<br />
<strong>de</strong>r Origin<strong>al</strong>-Schnittserie liegen drei Objektträger<br />
vor (Hinteren<strong>de</strong> part.)” (S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
1978: 247). We verify herewith that the holotype<br />
is compl<strong>et</strong>ely extant, mentioned by Thiele<br />
origin<strong>al</strong>ly as “untersuchtes Tier” in his publication,<br />
with seri<strong>al</strong> sections of the anim<strong>al</strong>’s anterior<br />
and posterior part. Re-examination by LvS-P of<br />
the postradular sections reve<strong>al</strong>s that Thiele’s <strong>de</strong>scription<br />
is brief but correct. Note that some of<br />
the above specimens might actu<strong>al</strong>ly represent<br />
D. hoffmani.<br />
arctica Thiele, 1913b – Nematomenia<br />
Nematomenia arctica Thiele, 1913: 161, pl. 1, 2.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Spitzbergen; Genauer Fundort<br />
nicht bekannt”; Spitsbergen. Römer & Schaudinn<br />
Expedition 1898; exact loc<strong>al</strong>ity unknown.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.380a, part of holotype, seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections on 2 sli<strong>de</strong>s (labelled “a vorn” and “b hinten”<br />
and “ad 5075”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.380b, 1 vi<strong>al</strong>, part of holotype) in <strong>et</strong>hanol;<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.380c, 1 Paraffin block. (marked with asterics<br />
for “type”).
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Fig. 1. Johannes Thiele (1860–1935) ma<strong>de</strong> numerous histologic<strong>al</strong> seri<strong>al</strong> sections of aplacophoran molluscs, <strong>de</strong>posited in the<br />
M<strong>al</strong>acozoologic<strong>al</strong> Collection of the Berlin Natur<strong>al</strong> History Museum today. Illustrated here are two examples of his origin<strong>al</strong><br />
seri<strong>al</strong> sections: – A –“Proneomenia” (¼ Dorymenia) hoffmani (S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978), two microscopic sli<strong>de</strong>s with cross-sections<br />
of Thiele’s series Q 1926 a–k (ZMB Moll. 105.420); Thiele origin<strong>al</strong>ly assigned this materi<strong>al</strong> to “Proneomenia” antarctica<br />
(Thiele, 1913a), but later separated it from this species (see S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 1978). – B –“Proneomenia” (¼ Epimenia) austr<strong>al</strong>is<br />
(Thiele, 1897), two sli<strong>de</strong>s with cross-sections of series 3070 (ZMB Moll. 105.407). Note Thiele’s handwriting on the origin<strong>al</strong><br />
labels glued onto the sli<strong>de</strong>s.<br />
C o m m e n t s : For a brief note on the Römer &<br />
Schaudinn Expedition see “Gener<strong>al</strong> remarks” in<br />
the introduction.<br />
austr<strong>al</strong>is (Thiele, 1897) – Epimenia<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
Proneomenia austr<strong>al</strong>is Thiele, 1897: 398.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “NW Austr<strong>al</strong>ien”; NW Austr<strong>al</strong>ia;<br />
60 fathom (i.e. 108 m isobath); leg. May 7,<br />
1875; “Gazelle” Expedition.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.407a, parts of holotype,<br />
seri<strong>al</strong> sections on 48 sli<strong>de</strong>s, Thiele fec. (labelled 1–36, anterior<br />
part, “Q 3070a–LL; and 1–12 posterior part, “Q<br />
3070 mm–xx);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.407b, 2 parts of holotype.<br />
C o m m e n t s : Transferred by Nierstrasz (1908)<br />
as type species, by monotypy, to his new genus<br />
Epimenia, which is characterized by unusu<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
large (up to 300 mm) and bright coloured species<br />
that occur on the continent<strong>al</strong> shelf and are found<br />
even close to shore at diving <strong>de</strong>pths. Six named<br />
congeneric species are known today, with more<br />
taxa to be <strong>de</strong>scribed within the family Epimeniidae<br />
(see Scheltema 2001: 10). Revision and synonymy<br />
in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1997a).<br />
austrina Thiele, 1913a – Phyllomenia<br />
Phyllomenia austrina Thiele, 1913a: 45, pl. IV, fig. 6; pl. V,<br />
figs 10–14; pl. VIII, figs 6–9.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis: Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 20S, 89 380E; DSE, 380 m, January<br />
30, 1903; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.392a, holotype, seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
on 3 sli<strong>de</strong>s; Thiele fec. (labelled “a–b vorn”, “ad Q<br />
1921a–b”; and “a hinten”, “ad Q 1921c”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.392b, 1 vi<strong>al</strong>, 2 parts of anim<strong>al</strong> and part of<br />
<strong>de</strong>rmis (“30. 01. 1903 WST 380 m, Phyllomenia n. gen., Cuticula”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.392c, 2 Paraffin blocks (marked “Phyllomenia”<br />
and on back of label “Solenogaster, 2 nov. gen.,<br />
30. 01. 1903”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Type-species, by monotypy, of the<br />
new genus Phyllomenia Thiele, 1913a. Re-<strong>de</strong>scription<br />
in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 84–89).<br />
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carinata Thiele, 1913a – Sand<strong>al</strong>omenia<br />
Sand<strong>al</strong>omenia carinata Thiele, 1913a: 44, pl. IV, figs 5, 25;<br />
pl. V, figs 6–9.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis: Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 20S, 89 380E; DSE, 385 m, November<br />
24, 1902; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.385, holotype, seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
on 6 sli<strong>de</strong>s; Thiele fec. (labelled “a–d vorn”,<br />
“24. XI. 1902a, Q 1929 a–d”; and “e” þ “a hinten”,<br />
“24. XI. 1902a, Q 1929 e þ f”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Juvenile anim<strong>al</strong>; re-examination<br />
by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 50–51).<br />
cataphracta (Thiele, 1913a) – Pholidoherpia<br />
[Lepidomenia]<br />
Lepidomenia cataphracta Thiele, 1913a: 38, pl. IV, figs 1,<br />
15–18.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis: Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 20S, 89 380E; DSE, 385 m, December<br />
31, 1902; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.386a, syntype, seri<strong>al</strong> section<br />
on 1 sli<strong>de</strong>; fec. L. v. S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 19.02.1975;<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.386b, syntype; 2 vi<strong>al</strong>s (with 2 specimens,<br />
Thiele fec., and n ¼ 15 specimens).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Thiele (1913a) mentioned the<br />
study of 20 specimens, here treated as syntypes.<br />
Systematic revision in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 51),<br />
with transfer as type species in new genus Pholidoherpia.<br />
clavigera Thiele, 1897 – Notomenia<br />
Notomenia clavigera Thiele, 1897: 398.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Torres-Straße”; Torres Strait,<br />
b<strong>et</strong>ween Austr<strong>al</strong>ia and New Guinea; 20 fathoms<br />
(36m), dredged.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.391, holotype, seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
on 6sli<strong>de</strong>s; Thiele fec. (labelled “CCCXLIII a–f”, with<br />
no. of “Vermes” Department “5495 a–f”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Type species, by origin<strong>al</strong> <strong>de</strong>signation,<br />
of Thiele’s new genus Notomenia. Re-examination<br />
and re-<strong>de</strong>scription in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(2004) leads to the classification within the new<br />
family Notomeniidae due to its anatomic<strong>al</strong> organization<br />
unrelated to any other genus within the<br />
framework of the hitherto established families.<br />
eisigi Thiele, 1894 – Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia<br />
Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia eisigi Thiele, 1894: 269.<br />
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Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Neapel”; Mediterranean Sea:<br />
Gulf of Naples.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.403a, holotype; seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
on 9 sli<strong>de</strong>s (labelled “CCCX a–d vorn” and “CCCX a–<br />
e hinten”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.403b, part of holotype.<br />
C o m m e n t s : A synonym of Rhoph<strong>al</strong>omenia<br />
aglaopheniae (Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky & Marion, 1887), as<br />
was <strong>al</strong>ready assumed by Thiele (1894: 269) and<br />
confirmed by Nierstrasz & Stork (1940: 74) and<br />
S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1967). The seri<strong>al</strong> sections of the<br />
holotype were given for comparative study to<br />
Nierstrasz, later transferred to and re-discovered<br />
in the Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum in Amsterdam. The<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> was r<strong>et</strong>urned in November 2004 to the<br />
ZMB; for more d<strong>et</strong>ails see below un<strong>de</strong>r Amphimenia<br />
grandis.<br />
gauszi S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978 – Pruvotina<br />
Pruvotina gauszi S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978: 144–145.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis, Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 2 0 S, 89 38 0 E; DSE; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.394, holotype, seri<strong>al</strong> section<br />
on 1 sli<strong>de</strong> Thiele fec. (labelled “ad Q 1923d, Pruvotina<br />
spinosa juv. Thiele”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : This materi<strong>al</strong> was origin<strong>al</strong>ly <strong>de</strong>scribed<br />
by Thiele (1913a) as juvenile of Pruvotina<br />
spinosa Thiele, 1913a and d<strong>et</strong>ermined as the<br />
above taxon by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 144–145).<br />
Note that the seri<strong>al</strong> sections (ZMB 105.394), origin<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
labelled “d” only represent the posterior<br />
part of the anim<strong>al</strong>.<br />
gaussiana Thiele, 1913a – Acanthomenia<br />
Acanthomenia gaussiana Thiele, 1913a: 62, pl. IV, fig. 7a;<br />
textfig. 2.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis”; Antarctic: DSE,<br />
at 65 270S, 80 330E, in <strong>de</strong>pth of –3398 m, March<br />
30, 1903; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.404, holotype, seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
on 2 sli<strong>de</strong>s; Thiele fec. (labelled “Q 1928a–b, 3398 m”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Type-species by monotypy of<br />
Thiele’s (1913a) new genus Acanthomenia. Revision<br />
in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 157–158).<br />
glaci<strong>al</strong>is Thiele, 1913a – Nematomenia<br />
Nematomenia glaci<strong>al</strong>is Thiele, 1913a: 40, pl. IV, figs 3, 21–22;<br />
pl. V, fig. 1.
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Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis, Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 2 0 S, 89 38 0 E; DSE, Twist 385 m, Jun<br />
16, 1902; 380–385 m, from July 31 to December<br />
19, 1902; Twist 380 m, from July 01, 1902 to January<br />
12, 1903; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.381a, lectotype (by present<br />
<strong>de</strong>signation), with seri<strong>al</strong> section on 5 sli<strong>de</strong>s, Thiele fec.<br />
(labelled “Q 1919a–c”, and “Q 1919d–e”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.381b, par<strong>al</strong>ectotypes in 14 vi<strong>al</strong>s (1. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
31. VII. 1902, WSt 380 m, one part of specimen; 2. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
16. VI. 1902, Twist 385 m, one specimen; 3. vi<strong>al</strong>: 19. XII.<br />
1902, 385 m, one specimen; 4. vi<strong>al</strong>: 07. I. 1903, Twist 380 m;<br />
vi<strong>al</strong> 5 –14, with a tot<strong>al</strong> of n ¼ 9 specimens, <strong>al</strong>l without labels<br />
or date);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.381c, par<strong>al</strong>ectotypes, 2 Paraffin block (labelled<br />
“glaci<strong>al</strong>is 31. 07. 1902”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.381d, par<strong>al</strong>ectotypes, 2 Paraffin blocks.<br />
C o m m e n t s : Re-<strong>de</strong>scription by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(1978: 40). Thiele (1913a: 40, Taf. V, Fig. 1)<br />
clearly indicated one fully adult anim<strong>al</strong>, here given<br />
as lectotype.<br />
grandis Thiele, 1894 – Neomenia<br />
Neomenia grandis Thiele, 1894: 223.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Neapel”; Mediterranean Sea:<br />
Gulf of Naples.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.387a, part of holotype, seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections on 52 sli<strong>de</strong>s (labelled “CCCI a–z2 vorn”, Thiele<br />
Dres<strong>de</strong>n 1893; “CCCII a–b”; “CCCIII a–r Hinteren<strong>de</strong>”;<br />
“CCCVI a–f”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.387b, part of holotype (ca. 4 cm) in <strong>et</strong>hanol.<br />
C o m m e n t s : Re-examined by H. A. Stork (in<br />
Nierstrasz & Stork 1940: 43) who <strong>al</strong>ready suggested<br />
not to distinguish N. grandis Thiele, 1894<br />
from N. carinata Tullberg, 1875. They placed<br />
grandis in synonymy of N. carinata Tullberg, as<br />
did S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1986, 1997b). The missing seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections of the holotype (and other materi<strong>al</strong><br />
of Thiele) were given for comparative study to<br />
Nierstrasz and later transferred tog<strong>et</strong>her with<br />
Amphimenia neapolitana and Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia eisigi<br />
to the collection of the Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum in<br />
Amsterdam. It was sent back to the ZMB thankfully<br />
by Robert Moolenbeek in November 2004<br />
after uncovering the post-WW II odyssee of this<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> (see more un<strong>de</strong>r A. neapolitana).<br />
intermedia Thiele, 1913a – M<strong>et</strong>amenia<br />
M<strong>et</strong>amenia intermedia Thiele, 1913a: 52, pl. IV, fig. 9; pl. VII,<br />
figs 1–2; pl. VIII, figs 16–21.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis, Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 2 0 S, 89 38 0 E; DSE, 380 m, Jun 14,<br />
1902; Twist 385 m, November 09, 1902; December<br />
17, 1902; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.399a, part of lectotype<br />
(by present <strong>de</strong>signation), seri<strong>al</strong> sections on 3 sli<strong>de</strong>s. Thiele<br />
fec. (labelled “a–b vorn”, “1924a–b, 09. XI. 1902”; and “a<br />
hinten”, “1924c, 09. XI. 1902”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.399b, part of lectotype (by present <strong>de</strong>signation);<br />
labelled “Th., 09. XI. 1902, Twist 385 m”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.399c, par<strong>al</strong>ectotypes in 3 vi<strong>al</strong>s, in <strong>al</strong>cohol<br />
(1. vi<strong>al</strong>: “? M. intermedia Th., Gauss-St[ation]”, one specimen;<br />
2. vi<strong>al</strong>: “? M. intermedia, 14. VI. 1902”, one specimen;<br />
3. vi<strong>al</strong>: “Proneomenia intermedia, 17. XII. 1902”, one specimen).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Type-species, by monotypy, of<br />
Thiele’s new genus M<strong>et</strong>amenia. Re-<strong>de</strong>scription in<br />
S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 149–150).<br />
kerguelensis S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 2005 –<br />
Ocheyoherpia<br />
Ocheyoherpia kerguelensis S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 2005: 100, figs 1–4.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Kerguelen”; South of the antarctic<br />
circle; France, Antarctic-Kerguelen Islands,<br />
DTE, station 160. Unfortunately, in the 1899<br />
compilation of station numbers for the DTE expedition<br />
on board “V<strong>al</strong>divia” no precise coordinates<br />
were given, but only a note that says “Gazelle<br />
Basin” and “3.5–4.0 C surface temperature”.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.395a, holotype, seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
on 3 sli<strong>de</strong>s and one spicule sli<strong>de</strong>; Thiele fec. (labelled<br />
origin<strong>al</strong>ly by Thiele as “Q 3030a–c”, plus spicule sli<strong>de</strong> “Q<br />
3030 d”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.395b, paratypes, Thiele fec.; 3 specimens<br />
(two of them, with 0.6 and 0.5 mm juveniles, the other juvenile<br />
with 1.15 mm, <strong>de</strong>c<strong>al</strong>cified without c<strong>al</strong>cerous bodies/spicules).<br />
The latter specimen is illustrated in Fig. 2, prior to<br />
histologic<strong>al</strong> sections (on n ¼ 10 sli<strong>de</strong>s) done by LvS-P in October<br />
2004.<br />
C o m m e n t s : This taxon was only provision<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
named kerguelensis by Johannes Thiele, as it is<br />
evi<strong>de</strong>nt from the labels accompagning the ZMB<br />
materi<strong>al</strong>, but was never <strong>de</strong>scribed in publication<br />
by this author, thus providing only a manuscript<br />
name without nomenclaturi<strong>al</strong> bearings. Therefore,<br />
the taxon was recently <strong>de</strong>scribed as a species<br />
of the genus Ocheyoherpia, now form<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
named by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (2005) utilizing the<br />
name “kerguelensis” as origin<strong>al</strong>ly suggested by<br />
Thiele. The taxon is tentatively transferred to<br />
ordo Sterrofustia, family Phyllomeniidae.<br />
neapolitana Thiele, 1889 – Amphimenia<br />
Proneomenia neapolitana Thiele, 1889: 429 (footnote).<br />
Proneomenia (Amphimenia) neapolitana Thiele, 1894: 244.<br />
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Fig. 2. Habitus of one juvenile of Ocheyoherpia kerguelensis<br />
S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 2005 (ZMB 105.395b; paratype); the compl<strong>et</strong>e<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> of this new taxon, including three juvenile anim<strong>al</strong>s,<br />
was origin<strong>al</strong>ly labelled “Pruvotina kerguelensis“ by<br />
Thiele, but only recently v<strong>al</strong>idly named and <strong>de</strong>scribed by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(2005); see text for more d<strong>et</strong>ails. Sc<strong>al</strong>e ¼ 0.5 mm.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Neapel”; Mediterranean Sea:<br />
Gulf of Naples.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.429, holotype, seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
on 14 sli<strong>de</strong>s, from anim<strong>al</strong> (c. 3 cm in length and 1.5 mm<br />
thick according to Thiele (1894: 244)); Thiele fec. (labelled<br />
“CCII a–o”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Type-species, by monotypy, of<br />
Amphimenia Thiele, 1894; as new subgenus of<br />
Proneomenia Hubrecht, 1880. Currently transferred<br />
to the Amphimeniidae. This taxon, <strong>de</strong>scribed<br />
tog<strong>et</strong>her with Neomenia grandis and<br />
Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia eisigi by Thiele (1894), was long<br />
missing from the ZMB collection as was <strong>al</strong>so<br />
Proneomenia vagans. Uncovering the odyssee of<br />
<strong>al</strong>l this materi<strong>al</strong> from the available evi<strong>de</strong>nce, we<br />
reconstruct that it was given by Thiele in the late<br />
1920th/early 1930th on loan for the preparation<br />
of the Naples monograph to H. F. Nierstrasz at<br />
the University Museum in Utrecht (Nierstrasz in<br />
Nierstrasz & Stork 1940: 1). After Nierstrasz’<br />
<strong>de</strong>ath (Sept. 1937) the materi<strong>al</strong> remained in<br />
Utrecht until the university stopped its systematic<br />
research. Thiele’s materi<strong>al</strong> was sent in 1956 to<br />
the then curator at the Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum in<br />
Amsterdam, T. Van Bentem-Jutting (while other<br />
materi<strong>al</strong> from Utrecht was transferred at the<br />
same time to the Natur<strong>al</strong> History Museum in<br />
Lei<strong>de</strong>n). In search of the type-materi<strong>al</strong>, it was<br />
traced out in May 1977 by LvS-P tog<strong>et</strong>her with<br />
S. Van <strong>de</strong>r Spoel, the then curator at the ZMA,<br />
on the occassion of a visit to the collection of<br />
the ZMA. LvS-P ma<strong>de</strong> exact notes about the<br />
boxes in which Thiele’s origin<strong>al</strong> materi<strong>al</strong> in the<br />
ZMA were <strong>de</strong>posited. Triggered by this forwar<strong>de</strong>d<br />
information, the materi<strong>al</strong> was fin<strong>al</strong>ly rediscovered<br />
in the ZMA and thankfully sent back<br />
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to the ZMB in November 2004 by Robert Moolenbeek.<br />
papilligera Thiele, 1913a – Sand<strong>al</strong>omenia<br />
Sand<strong>al</strong>omenia papilligera Thiele, 1913a: 41, pl. IV, figs 4, 24;<br />
pl. V, figs 2–5.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis, Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 20S, 89 380E; DSE, 385 m, from November<br />
22 to 24, 1902; Twist 380 m, January 28,<br />
1903; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.384a, syntype, seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
on 7 sli<strong>de</strong>s; Thiele fec. (labelled “Q 1920 a–d vorn”<br />
and “Q 1920 e–g hinten”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.384b, part of syntype;<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.384c, syntype, 1 specimen in <strong>al</strong>cohol (labelled<br />
“28. I. 1903, Twist 380 m);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.384d, syntypes, 2 Paraffin blocks.<br />
C o m m e n t s : Type-species, by subsequent <strong>de</strong>signation<br />
(S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 1978: 48), of the new<br />
genus Sand<strong>al</strong>omenia Thiele, 1913a. Re-<strong>de</strong>scription<br />
in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 48–50).<br />
prisca Thiele, 1906 – Archaeomenia<br />
Archaeomenia prisca Thiele, 1906: 315, pl. XXVIII.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Agulhas Bank, am südlichen<br />
Teil”; southern part of Agulhas bank, off South<br />
Africa; DTE, station 110 (35 90S, 18 32.80E; trawl<br />
564 m, October 4, 1898.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 59.910a, syntype, seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
on 8 sli<strong>de</strong>s (labelled “a–c vorn”, “Q 5078/1–3, V<strong>al</strong>divia”<br />
and “a–e hinten”, “Q 5078/4–8, V<strong>al</strong>divia”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 59.910b, syntype, seri<strong>al</strong> sections on 5 sli<strong>de</strong>s (labelled<br />
“a–e Sagit<strong>al</strong>schnitte”, “Q 5078/9–13);<br />
ZMB Moll. 59.910c, syntypes, 2 specimens in veil.<br />
C o m m e n t s : Type-species, by monotypy, of<br />
Thiele’s new genus Archaeomenia. Re-examined<br />
in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen & Paar-Gausch (2004).<br />
protecta Thiele, 1913a – Nematomenia<br />
Nematomenia protecta Thiele, 1913a: 39, pl. IV, figs 2, 19–20.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis, Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 20S, 89 380E; DSE, 385 m, July 9,<br />
1902; 385 m, December 2–4, 1902; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.382, syntypes, n ¼ 6<br />
whole mounts on 3 sli<strong>de</strong>s; Thiele fec. (2 sli<strong>de</strong>s labelled<br />
“9. VII. 1902, 385 [m]” and one sli<strong>de</strong> labelled “2.–<br />
4. XII. 1902, 385 m”).
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C o m m e n t s : Note that only the organisation of<br />
the sc<strong>al</strong>es of the mantle is known (Thiele 1913a:<br />
39–40; S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 1978: 45, fig. 28).<br />
provi<strong>de</strong>ns Thiele, 1913a – Pruvotina<br />
Pruvotina provi<strong>de</strong>ns Thiele, 1913a: 48, pl. IV, fig. 7; pl. V,<br />
figs 15–17; pl. VI, figs 1–3; pl. VIII, figs 10–11.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis, Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 20S, 89 380E; DSE 385 m Breitn<strong>et</strong>z<br />
and Twist, December 17, 1902; 385 m Twist, January<br />
28, 1903; 350 m Twist, February 8, 1903; leg.<br />
Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.397a, part of holotype, seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections on 3 sli<strong>de</strong>s, Thiele fec. (labelled “a–b Vor<strong>de</strong>ren<strong>de</strong>”,<br />
“ad Q 1922 a–b”; and “a Hinteren<strong>de</strong>”, “ad Q 1922 c”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.397b, part of holotype (labelled<br />
“17. XII. 1902, 385 m”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.397c, paratypes in 6 vi<strong>al</strong>s (1. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
08. II. 1903, Twist 350 m, 1 specimen; 2. vi<strong>al</strong>: without label, 1<br />
specimen; 3. vi<strong>al</strong>: 17. XII. 1902, 385 m, 1 specimen; 4. vi<strong>al</strong>,<br />
28. I. 1903, Twist 385 m, part of specimen; 5. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
17. XII. 1902, Twist 385 m, 11 specimens; 6. vi<strong>al</strong>: 2 specimens);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.397d, paratype, 1 Paraffin block.<br />
C o m m e n t s : Re-<strong>de</strong>scription by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(1978: 119–120).<br />
spinosa (Thiele, 1913a) – Labidoherpia<br />
[Pruvotina]<br />
Pruvotina spinosa Thiele, 1913a: 50, pl. IV, fig. 8; pl. VI,<br />
figs 4–7; pl. VIII, fig. 12–15.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis, Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 20S, 89 380E; DSE; 385 m; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.398a, lectotype (by present<br />
<strong>de</strong>signation), seri<strong>al</strong> sections on 3 sli<strong>de</strong>s; Thiele fec. (labelled<br />
“a – vorn”, “ad Q 1923 a”; and “a–b”, “ad Q 1923<br />
b–c; b ¼ 28. I. 1903”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.398b, par<strong>al</strong>ectotypes in n ¼ 10 vi<strong>al</strong>s (1. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
17. XII. 1902, 385 m, 1 specimen, 2. vi<strong>al</strong>: 14. IV. 1902, 385 m,<br />
1 specimen; 3. vi<strong>al</strong>: 12. I. 1903, 380 m, 6 specimens; 4. vi<strong>al</strong>: 8<br />
specimens; 5. vi<strong>al</strong>: 14 specimens; 6. vi<strong>al</strong>: 1 specimen; 7. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
46 specimens; 8. vi<strong>al</strong>: 12. X. 1902, 385 m, 1 specimen; 9. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
22. I. 1903, 2 specimens, one with long spiculae; 10. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
09. VII. 1902, 385 m, 2 specimens);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.398c, par<strong>al</strong>ectotypes, 2 Paraffin blocks (labelled<br />
“10. 01. 1903 juv.” and “28. 01. 1903”).<br />
Comments: Pruvotina spinosa Thiele, 1913a<br />
has been assigned by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978) as<br />
type species of the new genus Labidoherpia.<br />
Note that of the origin<strong>al</strong>ly seven sli<strong>de</strong>s with seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections assigned to this species by Thiele<br />
(1913a), only three (ZMB Moll. 105.398a) are<br />
here kept with spinosa, while the other sli<strong>de</strong>s, la-<br />
belled “d” and “e–g”, respectively, were assigned<br />
to Pruvotina gauszi S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978<br />
and Gephyroherpia antarctica S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen,<br />
1978 (for d<strong>et</strong>ails see there).<br />
squamosa Thiele, 1913a – Nematomenia<br />
Nematomenia squamosa Thiele, 1913a: 40, pl. IV, fig. 23.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis, Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 2 0 S, 89 38 0 E; DSE, 385 m, December<br />
17, 1902; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.383, holotype, whole<br />
mount on sli<strong>de</strong>; Thiele fec. (“labelled 17. XII. 1902; 385 m”;<br />
one of three anim<strong>al</strong>s on the microscopic sli<strong>de</strong> is circled with<br />
black marking, indicated as “type”; the other two are given<br />
as “N. glaci<strong>al</strong>is Thiele, Antarktis, Gauss Winterstation, D.<br />
Südp. Exp., Vanhöffen S, Q1931”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Only the mantle sc<strong>al</strong>es are known<br />
(Thiele 1913a: 39–40; S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 1978: 45).<br />
thulensis (Thiele, 1900) – Thieleherpia<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
Proneomenia thulensis Thiele, 1900: 111, pl. V.<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Spitzbergen, Station 18<br />
(80 80N, 16 550E), 480 m”; Spitsbergen, Hinlopen<br />
Strait, at northern entrance; leg. Römer &<br />
Schaudinn Expedition, June 1, 1898; on fine, blue<br />
mud with only few sm<strong>al</strong>l stones in front of a glacier.<br />
Loc<strong>al</strong>ity data here ad<strong>de</strong>d according to entries<br />
given in Römer & Schaudinn (1900: 40) in<br />
a compilation of dredge stations.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.405a, part of holotype, seri<strong>al</strong><br />
section on 14 sli<strong>de</strong>s (labelled “a–f” for anterior part, and<br />
“a–f” for posterior part);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.405b, part of holotype, in <strong>et</strong>hanol.<br />
C o m m e n t s : Re-<strong>de</strong>scription and classification<br />
as Thieleherpia thulensis (Thiele, 1900) in S<strong>al</strong>vini-<br />
Plawen (2004: 86–88), with the addition<strong>al</strong> examination<br />
of another specimen from off northeastern<br />
Iceland (ZMUC). Due to features of the<br />
ventr<strong>al</strong> foregut glandular organs the species was<br />
stated by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 231) not to belong<br />
to Proneomenia and fin<strong>al</strong>ly placed tog<strong>et</strong>her<br />
with Rhipidoherpia within the Rhipidoherpiidae<br />
(see S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 2004: 88).<br />
tricarinata (Thiele, 1913a) – Dorymenia<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
Proneomenia tricarinata Thiele, 1913a: 54, pl. IV, fig. 10;<br />
pl. VII, figs 3–9; pl. VIII, figs 22, 24–30.<br />
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Ty p e l o c a l i t y : “Antarktis, Winterstation am<br />
Gaussberg”; Antarctic: winter station at Mount<br />
Gauss at 66 2 0 S, 89 38 0 E; DSE, (17. 07. 1902–<br />
12. 10. 1902 Twist 385 m, 09. 11. 1902–22. und<br />
24. 11. 1902 Twist 385 m, 17. 12. 1902 Breitn<strong>et</strong>z<br />
385 m – 23. 12. 1902 Twist 385 m, 12. 01. 1903<br />
Twist 385 m – 24. 01. 1903 Twist 380 m,<br />
31. 01. 1903 Twist 380 m – 08. 02. 1903 385 m,<br />
15. 02. 1903 Twist 400 m), leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.413a, part of holotype, seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections on 11 sli<strong>de</strong>s, Thiele fec. (n ¼ 5 sli<strong>de</strong>s labelled<br />
“a–e vorn”, “Q 1925 k–o”; n ¼ 6 sli<strong>de</strong>s labelled “a–f hinten”,<br />
“Q 1925 a–f”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.413b, part of holotype (labelled<br />
“08. II. 1903, 385 m”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.413c, paratypes in 9 vi<strong>al</strong>s in <strong>et</strong>hanol (1. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
12. I. 1903, Twist 385 m, 1 specimen; 2. vi<strong>al</strong>: 23. XII. 1902, Twist<br />
385 m, 1 specimen; 3. vi<strong>al</strong>: 22. þ 24. XI. 1902, Twist 385 m,<br />
1 specimen; 4. vi<strong>al</strong>: 31. I. 1903, Twist 380 m, 1 specimen; 5. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
15. II. 1903, Twist 400 m, 2 specimens; 6. vi<strong>al</strong>: 09. XI. 1902,<br />
Twist 385 m, 1 specimen; 7. vi<strong>al</strong>: 17. XII. 1902, Breitn<strong>et</strong>z 385 m,<br />
1 specimen; 8. vi<strong>al</strong>: 17. XII. 1902, 1 specimen; 9. vi<strong>al</strong>:<br />
12. X. 1902, Twist 385 m, 1 specimen; 10. vi<strong>al</strong>: 09. XI. 1902,<br />
Twist 385 m, 1 specimen);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.413d, paratypes, 2 Paraffin blocks.<br />
C o m m e n t s : Re-<strong>de</strong>scription and classification<br />
as Dorymenia tricarinata (Thiele, 1913a) in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(1978: 257–260).<br />
v<strong>al</strong>diviae Thiele, 1902b – Proneomenia<br />
Proneomenia v<strong>al</strong>diviae Thiele, 1902b: 167, pl. XXIII.<br />
Type loc<strong>al</strong>ity: “Küste von Ostafrika, N von<br />
Sansibar; am N<strong>et</strong>z hängend, Sublimat”; DTE,<br />
station 249 (3 70S, 40 45.80E); offshore E Africa,<br />
north of Sansibar; trawl 748 m, March 23, 1899.<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.406a, part of holotype, seri<strong>al</strong><br />
sections on 15 sli<strong>de</strong>s (labelled “a–i vorn”; and “a–f hinten”);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.406b, part of holotype, in <strong>et</strong>hanol (labelled<br />
“5049”, referring to a number in the “Vermes” Collection).<br />
Section B – The non-type materi<strong>al</strong> in the M<strong>al</strong>acozoologic<strong>al</strong><br />
Collection of the ZMB<br />
Solenogastres<br />
aglaopheniae (Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky & Marion, 1887) –<br />
Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia<br />
Proneomenia aglaopheniae Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky & Marion, 1887: 1–76.<br />
L o c a l i t y : Mediterranean Sea: Gulf of Neaples;<br />
It<strong>al</strong>ia.<br />
M a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.402a, seri<strong>al</strong> sections on 12 sli<strong>de</strong>s,<br />
Thiele fec. (labellel “CCCXV a–d”, and “a–e”).<br />
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C o m m e n t s : Type species of the genus. Type<br />
loc<strong>al</strong>ity: Banyuls-sur-mer, France, Mediterranean<br />
coast. Known distribution: European shelf from<br />
Peleponnes (Greece) to Scottland; in 50–137 m.<br />
The materi<strong>al</strong> now housed again in the ZMB has<br />
been resent from the ZMA tog<strong>et</strong>her with other<br />
parts of Thiele’s materi<strong>al</strong> from Neaples such as,<br />
for example, Amphimenia neapolitana (see un<strong>de</strong>r<br />
this species) and Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia eisigi (Thiele,<br />
1894) which is synonymized with Rh. ag<strong>al</strong>opheniae<br />
(see un<strong>de</strong>r the former species).<br />
antarctica S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978 –<br />
Gephyroherpia<br />
Gephyroherpia antarctica S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978: 115.<br />
L o c a l i t y : “Antarktis: Winterstation am Gaussberg”;<br />
Antarctic: winter station at Mount Gauss<br />
at 66 2 0 S, 89 38 0 E; DSE; leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
M a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.393, seri<strong>al</strong> sections on 3 sli<strong>de</strong>s,<br />
Thiele fec. (labellel “e–g”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : The type materi<strong>al</strong> for this species<br />
is <strong>de</strong>posited in the USNM (Smithsonian Institution)<br />
in Washington, DC (USA). Type loc<strong>al</strong>ity:<br />
Ross Sea. The materi<strong>al</strong> in ZMB has been <strong>de</strong>scribed<br />
as “Pruvotina spinosa juv.” by Thiele<br />
(1913a: 52); see S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 118).<br />
banyulensis Pruvot, 1890 – Nematomenia<br />
Don<strong>de</strong>rsia banyulensis Pruvot, 1890: 699–810.<br />
Myzomenia banyulensis (Pruvot, 1890) – Simroth 1893a.<br />
L o c a l i t y : Mediterranean Sea: Gulf of Neaples;<br />
It<strong>al</strong>ia.<br />
M a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.426, seri<strong>al</strong> sections on 6 sli<strong>de</strong>s,<br />
Thiele fec. (labellel “CLXXIV a–c”, anterior part of anim<strong>al</strong>;<br />
and “CLXXII”, posterior part of anim<strong>al</strong>);<br />
ZMB Moll. 105.379, specimen in <strong>et</strong>hanol; Thiele fec. (“Plymouth,<br />
Marien Biologic<strong>al</strong> Laboratory, Thiele rev.”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : Ty p e l o c a l i t y : Banyuls-surmer,<br />
France, Mediterranean coast. The actu<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
known distribution ranges from D<strong>al</strong>matia (Adriatic<br />
Sea) to the Trondheimsfjord (Norway) at 31–<br />
300 m <strong>de</strong>pth. The materi<strong>al</strong> now housed again in<br />
the ZMB (105.426) has been resent from the<br />
ZMA tog<strong>et</strong>her with other parts of Thiele’s materi<strong>al</strong><br />
from Neaples such as, for example, Amphimenia<br />
neapolitana (see un<strong>de</strong>r this species).<br />
hoffmani S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978 – Dorymenia<br />
Dorymenia hoffmani S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978: 247.
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L o c a l i t y : “Antarktis: Winterstation am Gaussberg”;<br />
Antarctic: winter station at Mount Gauss<br />
at 66 2 0 S, 89 38 0 E; DSE, leg. Vanhöffen.<br />
M a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.420, seri<strong>al</strong> section on 9 sli<strong>de</strong>s<br />
(labelled by Thiele as “Q 1926 a–k”); see Fig. 1.<br />
C o m m e n t s : This materi<strong>al</strong> has been assigned<br />
origin<strong>al</strong>ly to Proneomenia antarctica by Thiele<br />
(1913a), but was separated from this species by<br />
S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978: 247). The type materi<strong>al</strong> of<br />
the latter is <strong>de</strong>posited in the Zoologic<strong>al</strong> Museum<br />
of the University Upps<strong>al</strong>a (Schwe<strong>de</strong>n), as seri<strong>al</strong><br />
section on sli<strong>de</strong>s.<br />
vagans Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky & Marion, 1887 –<br />
Dorymenia<br />
Proneomenia vagans Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky & Marion 1887: 1–76.<br />
L o c a l i t y : Mediterranean Sea: Gulf of Neaples;<br />
It<strong>al</strong>ia.<br />
M a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.427, seri<strong>al</strong> sections on 3 sli<strong>de</strong>s,<br />
Thiele fec. (labellel “CLXVII a–c”).<br />
C o m m e n t s : The species had been re<strong>de</strong>scribed<br />
by Thiele (1894). It is known from the western<br />
Mediterranean, b<strong>et</strong>ween Marseille and Neaples,<br />
from <strong>de</strong>pth down to 20–30 m. The seri<strong>al</strong> sections<br />
of the ZMB were given on loan for comparative<br />
study to Nierstrasz, later transferred to the Zoologic<strong>al</strong><br />
Museum in Amsterdam and r<strong>et</strong>urned in<br />
November 2004 to the ZMB; for more d<strong>et</strong>ails<br />
see below un<strong>de</strong>r Amphimenia neapolitana.<br />
Caudofoveata<br />
This group (<strong>al</strong>so named Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmomorpha),<br />
is tradition<strong>al</strong>ly subdivi<strong>de</strong>d into three families, Limifossoridae<br />
(with M<strong>et</strong>acha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma Thiele,<br />
1913), Procha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmatidae (with Procha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma<br />
Thiele, 1902) and Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmatidae; see e.g.<br />
S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1971, 1975, 1985) and Scheltema<br />
(1981).<br />
Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmatidae Ihering, 1876<br />
The family represents a cosmopolitan taxon comprising<br />
three genera with a tot<strong>al</strong> of 80 species <strong>de</strong>scribed,<br />
mostly from the shelf regions and the<br />
continent<strong>al</strong> slopes. It inclu<strong>de</strong>s with Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma<br />
productum being up to 14 cm in length the greatest<br />
Caudofoveate.<br />
productum Wirén, 1892 – Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma<br />
Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma productum, Wirén 1892: 86.<br />
Cryst<strong>al</strong>lophrisson productum (Wirén) – Thiele (1932).<br />
Ty p e l o c a l i t y : Kara Sea (71 20 0 N, 59 58 0 E);<br />
62 fathoms (¼ –114 to 115 m <strong>de</strong>pth), leg. Sept.<br />
9, 1883; “Dijmphna”-Expedition (Stat. 188).<br />
Ty p e m a t e r i a l : Lectotype and par<strong>al</strong>ectotype in ZMC,<br />
vi<strong>de</strong> S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1975).<br />
A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l : ZMB Moll. 105.377,<br />
n ¼ 3 specimens. Topotypic<strong>al</strong> materi<strong>al</strong>, origin<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
labelled as “C. nitidulum”, later changed to C.<br />
productum referring to A. Wirén’s <strong>de</strong>scription of<br />
a new arctic species (see Comments below).<br />
C o m m e n t s : There are three locations known<br />
from the Kara Sea where C. productum was<br />
caught with sever<strong>al</strong> specimens each during the<br />
Danish-Internation<strong>al</strong> “Dijmphna” Expedition<br />
from August 1882 to August 1883 (see Paulsen<br />
1884). The three specimens in the ZMB are apparently<br />
part of the materi<strong>al</strong> origin<strong>al</strong>ly collected<br />
at the locus typicus in the Kara Sea by this expedition,<br />
<strong>al</strong>beit they are not of the syntype series<br />
that Wirén based his <strong>de</strong>scription on. While we<br />
were unable to reconstruct how the ZMB got<br />
part of the materi<strong>al</strong> from the Dijmphna” Expedition<br />
in the first place, Wirén (1892: 8) explicitly<br />
stated in his introduction that in summer 1891 he<br />
had a chance to see this materi<strong>al</strong> in the collections<br />
of both the Copenhagen Museum and the<br />
Berlin Museum. However, he continued that for<br />
his <strong>de</strong>scription in 1892 of a new species from the<br />
Kara Sea, distinct from C. nitidulum, he received<br />
only the materi<strong>al</strong> from the Copenhagen Museum<br />
through Dr. G. M. R. Levinsen.<br />
Thiele (1902c: 273) mentioned dissections<br />
done on a specimen from the Götting Zoologic<strong>al</strong><br />
collection, <strong>de</strong>d. Ehlers, and the publication date<br />
is before Thiele starting to work as curator in<br />
the ZMB. However, this Götting specimens represents<br />
C. nitidulum; its origin is unknown, but<br />
most likely comes from the North Sea or the<br />
Kattegatt. The series of C. productum (ZMB<br />
105.377) was r<strong>et</strong>urned to the M<strong>al</strong>acologic<strong>al</strong> collection<br />
from the “Vermes” <strong>de</strong>partment in Dezember<br />
1930.<br />
This species was origin<strong>al</strong>ly consi<strong>de</strong>red by Odhner<br />
(1921) as subspecies of Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma nitidulum<br />
(Lovén, 1845), which is, however, not known<br />
from a holotype or syntype specimen (see S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
1984; Ivanov & Scheltema 2000). For<br />
a new characterisation see S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1975).<br />
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Procha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmatidae S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1968<br />
The family represents a cosmopolitan taxon<br />
based upon the single genus Procha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma,<br />
Thiele, including today six (poorly <strong>de</strong>fined) genera<br />
or subgenera with 25 named species. They<br />
are of sm<strong>al</strong>l size, less than 5 mm, and mostly belong<br />
to the <strong>de</strong>ep-sea fauna (S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen 1992;<br />
Scheltema & Ivanov 2000, 2004; Ivanov & Scheltema<br />
2002). Thiele (1902c: 275) introduced Procha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma<br />
for Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma radulifera Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky<br />
(1901), according to the <strong>de</strong>scription by<br />
this author, from the Marmara Sea. Today no<br />
origin<strong>al</strong> materi<strong>al</strong> is r<strong>et</strong>ained.<br />
Section C – List of nomin<strong>al</strong> taxa housed in the<br />
M<strong>al</strong>acozoologic<strong>al</strong> Collection of the Museum of<br />
Natur<strong>al</strong> History Berlin (ZMB), arranged according<br />
to current systematic affiliation<br />
The present cat<strong>al</strong>ogue comprises a tot<strong>al</strong> of 31<br />
aplacophoran taxa, including six non-type taxa.<br />
Of these taxa n ¼ 23 were named and <strong>de</strong>scribed<br />
origin<strong>al</strong>ly by Johannes Thiele, with an addition<strong>al</strong><br />
four by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978, 2005), which are<br />
partly based on materi<strong>al</strong> first <strong>de</strong>scribed by<br />
Thiele. With the exception of the caudofoveate<br />
Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma productum Wirén, 1892 <strong>al</strong>l aplacophorans<br />
in the ZMB are Solenogastres. They are<br />
assigned to 20 genera, following the classification<br />
suggested by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978). For a characterization<br />
of the genera see e.g. S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(1967).<br />
Currently, 29 out of the 31 aplacohoran taxa<br />
are consi<strong>de</strong>red v<strong>al</strong>id species, two are consi<strong>de</strong>red<br />
synonyms (i.e. Neomenia grandis of N. carinata,<br />
and Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia eisigi of R. aglaopheniae). A<br />
third, Ocheyoherpia kerguelensis S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen,<br />
2005 was newly <strong>de</strong>scribed, based on materi<strong>al</strong><br />
provision<strong>al</strong>ly named but not <strong>de</strong>scribed and published<br />
as v<strong>al</strong>id name by J. Thiele.<br />
The following list is consi<strong>de</strong>red the most recent<br />
classification on aplacophoran molluscs, and<br />
essenti<strong>al</strong>ly follows that suggested by S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(1978) with additions in S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen<br />
(2004). Type species of genera are given in bold,<br />
synonyms are given as “¼”; origin<strong>al</strong> generic assigments<br />
are in square parentheses. Numbers refer<br />
to footnotes below.<br />
<strong>Glaubrecht</strong>, M. <strong>et</strong> <strong>al</strong>., Aplacophoran Mollusca in the Natur<strong>al</strong> History Museum Berlin<br />
A – Solenogastres<br />
Aplotegmentaria<br />
Ordo Pholidoskepia<br />
Don<strong>de</strong>rsiidae<br />
Nematomenia arctica Thiele, 1913b<br />
Nematomenia banyulensis (Pruvot, 1890)<br />
[Don<strong>de</strong>rsia]<br />
Nematomenia glaci<strong>al</strong>is Thiele, 1913<br />
Nematomenia (?) protecta Thiele, 1913<br />
Nematomenia (?) squamosa Thiele, 1913a<br />
Sand<strong>al</strong>omeniidae<br />
Sand<strong>al</strong>omenia papilligera Thiele, 1913<br />
Sand<strong>al</strong>omenia carinata Thiele, 1913a<br />
Incertae sedis<br />
Pholidoherpia cataphracta (Thiele, 1913a)<br />
[Lepidomenia]<br />
Ordo Neomeniamorpha<br />
Hemimeniidae<br />
Archaeomenia prisca Thiele, 1906<br />
Neomeniidae<br />
Neomenia grandis Thiele, 1894 ¼ N. carinata<br />
Tullberg, 1875<br />
Pachytegmentaria<br />
Ordo Sterrofustia<br />
Phyllomeniidae<br />
Phyllomenia austrina Thiele, 1913a<br />
Ocheyoherpia kerguelensis S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 2005<br />
Ordo Cavibelonia1 Pararrhop<strong>al</strong>iidae2 Gephyroherpia antarctica S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978<br />
[Pruvotina spinosa Thiele, partim]<br />
Pruvotina gauszi S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978 [Pruvotina<br />
spinosa Thiele, partim]<br />
Pruvotina provi<strong>de</strong>ns Thiele, 1913<br />
Labidoherpia spinosa (Thiele, 1913a)<br />
[Pruvotina]<br />
M<strong>et</strong>amenia intermedia Thiele, 1913a<br />
Acanthomeniidae<br />
Acanthomenia gaussiana Thiele, 1913a<br />
Notomeniidae<br />
Notomenia clavigera Thiele, 1897<br />
Rhop<strong>al</strong>omeniidae<br />
Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia aglaopheniae (Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky &<br />
Marion, 1887) [Proneomenia]<br />
Rhop<strong>al</strong>omenia eisigi Thiele, 1894 ¼ R. aglaopheniae<br />
(Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky & Marion, 1887)<br />
1 S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen (1978, 2004) suggested to distinguish 11 families, of which 7 are represented here by type materi<strong>al</strong> extant<br />
in the ZMB<br />
2 Family <strong>al</strong>so named Pruvotinidae or Perimeniidae; morphologic<strong>al</strong>ly diverse, but ill-<strong>de</strong>fined group according to Scheltema<br />
(2001: 16)<br />
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Strophomeniidae<br />
Anamenia amboinensis (Thiele, 1902a)<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
Epimeniidae<br />
Epimenia austr<strong>al</strong>is (Thiele, 1897) [Proneomenia]<br />
Proneomeniidae<br />
Proneomenia v<strong>al</strong>diviae Thiele, 1902b<br />
Dorymenia antarctica (Thiele, 1913a)<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
Dorymenia hoffmani S<strong>al</strong>vini-Plawen, 1978<br />
[Proneomenia antarctica Thiele, partim]<br />
Dorymenia tricarinata (Thiele, 1913a)<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
Dorymenia vagans (Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky & Marion,<br />
1887) [Proneomenia]<br />
Amphimeniidae<br />
Amphimenia neapolitana (Thiele, 1889)<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
Rhipidoherpiidae<br />
Thieleherpia thulensis (Thiele, 1900)<br />
[Proneomenia]<br />
B – Caudofoveata:<br />
Ordo Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmomorpha<br />
Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmatidae<br />
Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma productum Wirén, 1892<br />
Section D – List of nomin<strong>al</strong> taxa named by<br />
Thiele, but representatives not extant in the Museum<br />
of Natur<strong>al</strong> History Berlin (ZMB)<br />
The following taxa have been named by Thiele,<br />
in addition to those listed <strong>al</strong>phab<strong>et</strong>hic<strong>al</strong>ly un<strong>de</strong>r<br />
section A and B (see <strong>al</strong>so systematic section C).<br />
However, materi<strong>al</strong> representing these genus-level<br />
taxa is not extant (i.e. not found in the ZMB collection).<br />
Compilation according to Boss & Bieler<br />
(1991) who listed a tot<strong>al</strong> of 11 genus-level names<br />
introduced by Thiele.<br />
Solenogastres<br />
Don<strong>de</strong>rsiidae<br />
Heathia Thiele, 1913a; as new genus. Type-species,<br />
by monotypy: Ichthyomenia porosa<br />
Heath, 1911.<br />
Rhop<strong>al</strong>omeniidae<br />
Pruvotia Thiele, 1894; as new genus. Type-species,<br />
by monotypy: Proneomenia sopita Pruvot,<br />
1891.<br />
Caudofoveata<br />
Limifossoridae<br />
M<strong>et</strong>acha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma Thiele, 1913a; as new genus.<br />
Type-species, by monotypy: Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma ch<strong>al</strong>lengeri<br />
Nierstrasz, 1903.<br />
Procha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rmatidae<br />
Procha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma Thiele, 1902; as new genus.<br />
Type-species, by monotypy: Cha<strong>et</strong>o<strong>de</strong>rma raduliferum<br />
Kow<strong>al</strong>evsky, 1901.<br />
Acknowledgements<br />
We are most grateful to Robert Moolenbeck for <strong>al</strong>truistic<strong>al</strong>ly<br />
searching for and locating in the ZMA three of Thiele’s aplacophoran<br />
types from Neaples that were missing after being<br />
sent out on loan to Nierstrasz in Utrecht before WW II. We<br />
thank Frank Köhler for his help with inventorizing the aplacophoran<br />
type materi<strong>al</strong> of the ZMB and for v<strong>al</strong>uable comments<br />
on the manuscript, as well as Jeroen Goud (Natur<strong>al</strong>is,<br />
Lei<strong>de</strong>n) for addition<strong>al</strong> information. We thank, as <strong>al</strong>ways,<br />
Mrs. Ingeborg Kilias for her help with literature research,<br />
and Birger Neuhaus for addition<strong>al</strong> hints to the history of<br />
these enigmatic “vermiform” molluscs partly <strong>de</strong>posited and<br />
misplaced among “Vermes” in the <strong>de</strong>partment un<strong>de</strong>r his<br />
care; for helping to locate aplacophoran materi<strong>al</strong> in the latter<br />
<strong>de</strong>partment we are thankful to Mrs. K. Kämpf and K. Meschter.<br />
We are in<strong>de</strong>pted to Michael Ohl (ZMB) and an anonymous<br />
referee for some v<strong>al</strong>uable comments that helped to improve<br />
the manuscript.<br />
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