Cellaria salicornioides Lamouroux, 1816

(Fig. 10 F-H)

Cellaria salicornioides Lamouroux, 1816: 127 . — Audouin 1826: 236; Savigny 1817: pl. 6, fig. 7. — Prenant & Bobin 1966: 382, text-fig. 124. — Ryland & Hayward 1977: 124, text-figs 56A, 59. — Poluzzi & Padovani 1984: 109, fig.5d.— Zabala 1986: 307, text-fig.84:3a-e; pl.3, figs E-F.— Moissette 1988: 104, pl.17, figs 1-2. — Zabala & Maluquer 1988: 94, text-figs 137-140; pl. 2, fig. H. — Schmid 1989: 18, pl. 4, figs 3-6. — El Hajjaji 1992: 129, pl.6, fig.7. — Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995: 788, pl. 3, fig. 1. — Haddadi-Hamdane 1996: 71, pl. 6, figs 12- 13. — López de la Cuadra & García-Gómez1996: 158, figs 1C, 3A-F, 4.

OCCURRENCE. — Early Miocene: France (Pouyet 1991). Middle Miocene: Austria (Schmid 1989), Hungary (Moissette et al. 2006), Czech Republic, Poland (Pouyet 1997). Late Miocene: Morocco (El Hajjaji 1992), Algeria (Moissette 1988). Pliocene: Algeria (Haddadi-Hamdane 1996), Crete. Pleistocene: Sicily (Poluzzi & Padovani 1984), Rhodes (Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995). Recent: eastern Atlantic (Morocco, Madeira, up to the Shetland Islands), Mediterranean, Red Sea. The species has been recorded from the Atlantic at depths of 0-360 m (and even down to 636 m in Morocco).In the Mediterranean, it occurs from the shallow infralittoral down to 280 m.

REMARKS

A number of specimens, especially those from the Faneromeni section, resemble C. salicornioides var. normani, a variety created by Hastings (1946) and considered as a distinct species, C. normani, by Prenant & Bobin (1966). However, López de la Cuadra & García-Gómez (1996) considered that the slight morphological differences (more slender internodes and larger avicularia in C. normani) do not justify the erection of a distinct taxon.