Dear Bernd,
Here is another reference:
Mienis, H.K., 2004. Mariene mollusken uit het oostelijk deel van de
Middellandse Zee 21. Een vondst van Fissidentalium rectum op een diepte van
1500 m. Spirula, 339: 75-76.
This note is in Dutch with an English summary. It is dealing with a find off
Haifa, Israel, where it was found at a depth of 1500 m. It was an empty
shell, which looked rather fresh.
Best regards,
Henk K. Mienis

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From: "Bernd Sahlmann" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 7:14 PM
Subject: Mediterranean Fissidentalium


> Dear colleagues,
>
> there is a Fissidentalium rectum (Gmelin 1791) mentioned in some books to
> be
> occuring in the deep waters  of the mediterranean, but it is not clear
> whether it is a recent species or if the location is right. The only
> picture
> I ever saw was in P. Dance "The collectors encyclopedia of shells" 1990,
> p.27 with the note "mediterranean, uncommon".
> Today I saw in magazine of the Zoological State Collection in Munich
> another
> Fissidentalium shell of about 70 mm length labelled D. rectum Gmelin,
> mediterranean, from a collector of the early 1900s. It looks like the
> shell
> in Dance and it was not fossil.
> Do anybody have some information on that species (except the short notice
> in
> Pilsbry&Sharp 1897) and on its habitats and distribution?  Any confirmed
> findings in the mediterranean?
>
> Best regards from Munich
> Bernd Sahlmann
>
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