Limopsis lilliei E. A. Smith, 1915

Zettler, Michael L. & Bick, Andreas, 2025, Molluscs from a shallow bay of King George Island (Antarctica, South Shetland Islands): An annotated checklist with new distributional records, Zootaxa 5631 (3), pp. 401-450 : 411

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6. Limopsis lilliei E. A. Smith, 1915 View in CoL [ Figs 5A–B View FIGURE 5 ]

Limopsis lilliei E. A. Smith, 1915: 76 View in CoL , pl. 1, fig. 18

Material examined. • 1 spm, Stn. 2; • 11 spms, Stn. 3; • 12 spms, Stn. 6; • 75 spms, Stn. 7; • 17 spms, Stn. 8; • 155 spms, Stn. 11; • 100 spms, Stn. 13; • 11 spms, Stn. 14; • 21 spms, Stn. 15.

Type locality. Off the Cape Bird Peninsula in McMurdo Sound (Ross Sea), 457 m depth.

Bathymetric distribution. 10–870 m.

Substrate. Soft bottom.

Geographical distribution. ANTARCTICA: Circum-Antarctic. SUBANTARCTICA: Macquarie Island. SCOTIA ARC: South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands. SOUTH AMERICA: -.

Remarks. Limopsis lilliei was one of the most common species found during our study. The depths were between 35 and 100 m. The species is already known from the Maxwell and Admiralty Bays.

References. Nicol (1966), Arnaud et al. (1986), Dell (1990), Rauschert (1991), Narchi et al. (2002), Aldea & Troncoso (2010a), Engl (2012).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Bivalvia
Order	Arcida
Family	Limopsidae
Genus	Limopsis