Trophon rusticulus, Trophon

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 : 57

rusticulus Trophon [ Fusinus rusticulus (Monterosato, 1880) ] ( Figures 20T, U)

1880b: 227 [XXVI: 525]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–17419 —1 sh “ M. (Trophon) rusticulus Monts n. sp? C. d'Africa”// 3 sh “ rusticulus Eponges de Sfax ”// 2 sh “ Pseudofusus rusticulus C. di Barberia ”// 1 sh “C. d’Afr.”// 14 sh “Coste d’Africa” label Brugnone’s handwrite // 1 sh “ Pseudofusus rusticulus Monts Sfax ”. Label on the bottom: “Pseud. rusticulus Monts Eponges de Barberia ” “ Trophon rusticulus Monts C. di Barberia !”// 5 sh “C. d’Africa (Spugne)”.

Type locality. Described from coasts of Africa ( Tunisia).

Remarks. Settepassi (1985) figured two syntypes from “C. di Barberia” as Fusinus (Fusinus) rusticulus (Monterosato, 1879) . Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as Fusinus rusticulus (Monterosato, 1880) .