Yoldiella valettei (E. Lamy, 1906)

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 : 408

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15375061
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scientific name	Yoldiella valettei (E. Lamy, 1906)
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4. Yoldiella valettei (E. Lamy, 1906) View in CoL [ Figs 4E–G View FIGURE 4 ]

Yoldia valettei E. Lamy, 1906: 126 View in CoL , fig. 4

Material examined. • 67 spms, Stn. 3; • 22 spms, Stn. 6; • 1 spm, Stn. 8; • 1 spm, Stn. 11; • 3 spms, Stn. 13; • 9 spms, Stn. 14.

Type locality. South Orkney Islands .

Bathymetric distribution. 15–1263 m.

Substrate. Soft bottom.

Geographical distribution. ANTARCTICA:Antarctic Peninsula. SUBANTARCTICA: -. SCOTIA ARC: South Shetland Islands, South Orkney Islands, Drake Passage. SOUTH AMERICA: Malvinas/Falkland Islands, southern Chile.

Remarks. Prodissoconch I has a size of about 185 µm and a characteristic pitted surface. We found the species at six stations between 35 and 100 m. The species is already known from the Maxwell and Admiralty Bays.

References. Arnaud et al. (1986), Dell (1990), Rauschert (1991), Engl (2012), Reed et al. (2014).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Bivalvia
Order	Nuculanida
Family	Yoldiidae
Genus	Yoldiella