Thracia meridionalis E. A. Smith, 1885

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 : 422

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scientific name	Thracia meridionalis E. A. Smith, 1885
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24. Thracia meridionalis E. A. Smith, 1885 View in CoL [ Figs 11A–B View FIGURE 11 ]

Thracia meridionalis E. A. Smith, 1885: 68 View in CoL , pl. 6, figs 4–4b

Material examined. • 85 spms, Stn. 3; • 6 spms, Stn. 6; • 11 spms, Stn. 7; • 16 spms, Stn. 8; • 9 spms, Stn. 11; • 35 spms, Stn. 13; • 1 spm, Stn. 14.

Type locality. Kerguelen Islands .

Bathymetric distribution. 4–836 m.

Substrate. Soft bottom.

Geographical distribution. ANTARCTICA: Circum-Antarctic. SUBANTARCTICA: Prince Edward Islands, Kerguelen Islands. SCOTIA ARC: South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands. SOUTH AMERICA: Strait of Magellan, Malvinas/Falkland Islands.

Remarks. The species was frequently found in depths between 35 and 100 m. The species is already known from the Maxwell and Admiralty Bays.

References. Thiele (1912), Egorova (1982), Arnaud et al. (1986), Dell (1990), Rauschert (1991), Linse (1997), Troncoso et al. (2001), Aldea & Troncoso (2008, 2010a), Engl (2012), Huber (2015).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Bivalvia
Order	Cardiida
Family	Thraciidae
Genus	Thracia