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The Malacological Society of Australasia

Molluscan Research Abstract

Molluscan Research

Volume 16: 31 August 1995

Falcidens poias, a new species of chaetoderm Aplacophora from Rottnest Island, Western Australia (Chaetodermomorpha, Chaetodermatidae).

A.H. Scheltema

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 USA.

Falcidens poias is a new aplacophoran species, the first to be described from Western Australia. It occurs amongst rhizomes of seagrass in Porpoise Bay, Rottnest Island, at densities of about 50 individuals m-2. Its closest known relative is F. lipuros Scheltema from Bass Strait. The species is interesting both because of its unusually shallow occurrence at 3 m and its abundance.

pp. 45-49.

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