Callochiton bouveti Thiele, 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 : 441

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scientific name	Callochiton bouveti Thiele, 1906
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57. Callochiton bouveti Thiele, 1906 View in CoL [ Figs 19A–C View FIGURE 19 ]

Callochiton bouveti Thiele, 1906: 330 View in CoL , pl. 29, figs 9–10

Material examined. • 1 spm, Stn. 1; • 21 spms, Stn. 2; • 1 spm, Stn. 7.

Type locality. East off Bouvet Island, 567 m depth.

Bathymetric distribution. 9–567 m.

Substrate. Hard and soft bottoms.

Geographical distribution. ANTARCTICA: Antarctic Peninsula. SUBANTARCTICA: Bouvet Island. SCOTIA ARC: South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands, South Orkney Islands, South Shetland Islands. SOUTH AMERICA: Magellan Strait, Malvinas/Falkland Islands.

Remarks. We found this species in Fildes Strait and Ardley Cove in depths between 50 and 70 m. It was already known from Fildes Strait by previous studies.

References. Bergenheyn (1937), Kaas & van Belle (1985b), Götting (1993), Forcelli (2000), Aldea et al. (2016, 2020).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Polyplacophora
Order	Callochitonida
Family	Callochitonidae
Genus	Callochiton