Trophon minutus Melvill & Standen, 1907

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 : 437

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scientific name	Trophon minutus Melvill & Standen, 1907
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51. Trophon minutus Melvill & Standen, 1907 View in CoL [ Figs 17D–F View FIGURE 17 ]

Trophon minutus Melvill & Standen, 1907: 137 View in CoL , figs 7, 7a

Material examined. • 1 spm, Stn. 2; • 3 spms, Stn. 10.

Type locality. Scotia Bay (South Orkney Islands), 17 to 28 m depth.

Bathymetric distribution. 2–305 m.

Substrate. Hard bottom.

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

Remarks. The maximum height of this species is about 9 mm. We found it in Fildes Strait and Ardley Cove in depths between 60 and 70 m. The maximum shell height of our material was 6 mm. This species was already known from the study area from previous Soviet Antarctic expeditions in depths between 15 and 60 m.

References. Oliver & Picken (1984), Dell (1990), Aldea & Troncoso (2008, 2010b), Engl (2012).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Neogastropoda
Family	Muricidae
Genus	Trophon