Mactra lignaria, Monterosato, 1917

Appolloni, Massimo, Smriglio, Carlo, Amati, Bruno, Lugliè, Lorenzo, Nofroni, Italo, Tringali, Lionello P., Mariottini, Paolo & Oliverio, Marco, 2018, Catalogue of the primary types of marine molluscan taxa described by Tommaso Allery Di Maria, Marquis of Monterosato, deposited in the Museo Civico di Zoologia, Roma, Zootaxa 4477 (1), pp. 1-138 : 82

lignaria , Mactra [ Mactra stultorum (Linnaeus, 1758) ] ( Figures 37C, D )

1878c: 73 [XIX: 387]—as M. corallina var. lignaria , nomen nudum

1917: 8 [LXVII: 1282]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–19665 —1 sh “ M. lignaria Monts typ. Napoli!”// 3 sh “juv. Napoli” MCZR –M–19647 —7 sh + 1v dx + 1 frg “iuvenis M. lignaria var. alba Napoli ”

MCZR–M–19670 —14 sh + 4 v sx “ M. lignaria , M. coll. Tiberi come M. stultorum Napoli ”// 1 sh “Napoli Staz. Zool.”

Type locality. Described from Gulf of Napoli ( Italy).

Remarks. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Mactra stultorum (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Figures

FIGURE 37. A, B. Mactra galloprovincialis Monterosato, 1917, Port Vendres (France), 41.7 mm x 55 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–19693); C, D. Mactra lignaria Monterosato, 1917, Napoli (Italy), 29.1 mm x 36.1 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–19665); E, F. Axinus granulosus Monterosato, 1874 ex Jeffreys ms., San Vito lo Capo (Sicily), 5.5 mm x 5.1 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–19237); G, H. Axinus intermedius Monterosato, 1880, lectotype, Palermo (Sicily), 1.6 mm x 1.3 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–19228); I, J. Axinus oblongus Monterosato, 1880, Palermo (Sicily), 1.1 mm x 0.8 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–14654);K, L. Cardium duregnei Monterosato, 1891, Arcachon (France), 59.3 mm x 59.4 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–14815); M, N. Cardium propexum Monterosato, 1891, fossil of Ficarazzi (Sicily), 50 mm x 51 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–14744); O, P. Serrula adriatica Monterosato, 1884, Venice (Italy), 37 mm x 21.4 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–19349).