Trophon leptocharteres P. G. Oliver & Picken, 1984

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

50. Trophon leptocharteres P. G. Oliver & Picken, 1984 [ Figs 17A–C ]

Trophon leptocharteres P. G. Oliver & Picken, 1984: 109 , figs 28, 31a, b

Material examined. • 1 spm, Stn. 14.

Type locality. Borge Bay on Signy Island (South Orkney Islands), 15 to 30 m depth.

Bathymetric distribution. 10–130 m.

Substrate. Hard bottom.

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

Remarks. The maximum height is 26.2 mm. During our study we found one single specimen (height 15 mm) in Ardley Cove in a depth of 70 m. This species was already known from the study area from previous Soviet Antarctic expeditions in depths between 10 and 30 m.

References. Oliver & Picken (1984), Aldea & Troncoso (2010b), Engl (2012), Aldea et al. (2016).

Figures

FIGURE 17. A–C: Trophon leptocharteres P. G. Oliver & Picken, 1984; D–F: Trophon minutus Melvill & Standen, 1907; G–H: Trophon nucelliformis P. G. Oliver & Picken, 1984; I–J: Belalora striatula (Thiele, 1912). Unless otherwise indicated, the scale is always 1 mm.