Antarctophiline alata ( Thiele, 1912 )

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 : 439

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scientific name	Antarctophiline alata ( Thiele, 1912 )
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55. Antarctophiline alata ( Thiele, 1912) View in CoL [ Figs 18C–D View FIGURE 18 ]

Philine alata Thiele, 1912: 220 View in CoL , pl. 14 figs 19–20

Material examined. • 1 spm, Stn. 11.

Type locality. Gauss station (Davis Sea), 385 m depth.

Bathymetric distribution. 4–640 m.

Substrate. Soft bottom.

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

Remarks. Although our specimen is badly damaged, the typical features of the species, a wing-shaped mouth opening is clearly visible. We found one specimen in 40 m depth. Antarctophiline alata has already been observed in previous studies in Maxwell Bay in depths between 5 and 20 m.

References. Hain (1990), Rauschert (1991), Engl (2012), Aldea & Troncoso (2008, 2010a), Moles et al. (2019).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Cephalaspidea
Family	Antarctophilinidae
Genus	Antarctophiline