Integrative taxonomy of Gymnobela and Pontiothauma (Conoidea: Raphitomidae) from Australian waters provides more evidence of transoceanic distribution in deep-sea gastropods

The samples studied herein were selected among all deep-sea Raphitomidae ethanol-preserved (=wet) material from the malacological collections of the Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS) and the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany (ZSM). All studied material was collected during the voyage IN2017_V03 in the Tasman and Coral seas (O’Hara 2019), targeting (among other sites) a number of Commonwealth Marine Reserves (CMRs), the voyages IN2021_V04 and IN2022_V08 off the Australian Indian Ocean Territories (AIOT) Christmas and Cocos Islands (O’Hara 2021, 2022) and AFRIDEEP in the south-western Indian Ocean. The data has been acquired on the following RV Investigator voyage(s) IN2015_C01 IN2017_V03 IN2021_V04 and IN2022_V08 with links to additional metadata, datasets, events, deployments, publications etc. If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.