Report on mollusks collected in a single dredge haul in the Gulf of Mexico. What does it say about future molluscan discoveries?

摘要

In November 1996, a cruise on the R/V Pelican was undertaken by the Louisiana Malaeological Society to collect molluscan samples off the Mississippi-Alabama shores. It was a short trip, lasting only two collecting days. We had no strict pre-arranged stations and only wanted to know what was to be found in this poorly sampled area of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). We only sampled at ten stations ranging from 20 m, where a new species of Terebra was found, to a slope 400 to 490 m in depth. This report is on this deepest station (station LMS-II-9 in my catalogue) because of what it may foretell of future sampling in the northern GOM.