Spinosipella tinga Simone

Passos, Flávio Dias, Batistão, Alan Rodrigo & Lima, Luan Lucas Cardoso, 2024, Checklist of marine Bivalvia (Mollusca) from Brazil, with descriptive analyses of their bathymetric and geographical distribution, Zootaxa 5488 (1), pp. 1-94 : 78

521. Spinosipella tinga Simone & Cunha, 2008 ★ ■

Bathymetric distribution: 100–1050 m —WBD.

Geographical distribution: Brazil (RJ to RS)—B.

Remarks: Marini (1974) and Rios (1975, 1985, 1994) recorded this species as Verticordia acuticostata (R. A. Philippi, 1844) and Verticordia deshayesiana (P. Fischer, 1862) . Rios (2009) considered S. tinga “just an extreme variation” of S. agnes . Spinopsipella tinga was recorded from the southernmost Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul, suggesting its occurrence in the Argentine province. However, it was not noticed from Uruguay by Scarabino et al. (2016), nor from Argentina by Zelaya (2016), and so it is here considered as endemic from Brazil.

References: Marini (1974), Rios (1975, 1985, 1994), Simone & Cunha (2008a, b), Oliveira & Absalão (2010a).