The generic name Scaphella was proposed by Zenkova (1977: 81; type species S. gibbosa Zenkova, by original designation) for a new fossil ostracod genus from the Middle Silurian (Wenlockian) of the eastern slope of Middle Urals (Russian Federation). However, this name is already preoccupied by a marine gastropod molluscan generic name Scaphella Swainson (1832: pl. 87), which is in active current...

Daffymitra lindae, new genus, new species, is described from the Bellingshausen Abyssal Plain off Ellsworthland, Antarctica. Known only from its shell, this new taxon is included in the family Volutomitridae, but differentiated from all known living genera and species on the basis of its inflated shell shape, with an attenuated anterior and distinctive siphonal canal, as well as by the shape an...