Volvarina ampelusica, Monterosato, 1906

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 : 63

ampelusica , Volvarina [ Volvarina ampelusica Monterosato, 1906 ] ( Figures 23K, L )

1906b: 130 [LV: 1162]—available name

Type material. BMNH, coll. Norman, ex Ponsonby—2 sh (Lectotype and Paralectotype), designated by Gofas (1989: 171).

MCZR –M–17159/P —1 sh (Paralectotype) “ La più grande di Cap Spartel ” // “ V. Simieri, Adams Coq. Sénégal p. 79, t.5, f. 3 = M. fusca Reeve pl . 17 f. 82 fide Journ ( Mogador ”.

Type locality. Mogador ( Morocco). Described also from Cape Spartel ( Morocco).

Remarks. Name introduced to distinguish the Moroccan shells previously (1889d: 118) lumped in the same species as the Senegalese V. fusca (Reeve) [= Peribolus simeri Adanson ]. There is another shell in the same lot with the label reading: “V? simeri Adans. Coq. Senegal p.79, t 5, f. 3 = M. fusca, Reeve pl.17, f. 82 ( Mogador) Ponsoby da cui l’ho avuta. 1886” [“…Ponsoby from whom I have received it…”]. Gofas (1989) has designated a lectotype of V. ampelusica from specimens labelled as Marginella fusca in coll. Norman ex Ponsonby (NHML). Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as Volvarina ampelusica Monterosato, 1906 .

Figures

FIGURE 23. A, B. Cordieria radula Monterosato, 1884, lectotype, Palermo (Sicily), H. 15.1 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–16476); C, D. Marginella caelata Monterosato, 1877, paralectotype, Algiers (Algeria), H. 4.55 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–17216); E, F. Marginella philippi Monterosato, 1878, Palermo (Sicily), H. 3 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–17193); G, H. Gibberula recondita Monterosato, 1884, paralectotype, Palermo (Sicily), H. 4.5 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–17181); I, J. Gibberula secreta Monterosato, 1889, lectotype, Casablanca (Morocco), H. 5.6 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–17186); K, L. Volvarina ampelusica Monterosato, 1906, paralectotype, Mogador (Morocco), H. 11.4 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–17159); M, N. Marginella occulta Monterosato, 1869, paralectotype, Palermo (Sicily), H. 2.4 mm with original labels (MCZR–M–17212); O, P. Gibberulina ovulina Monterosato, 1891, lectotype, fossil of Ficarazzi (Sicily), H. 3.4 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–17197).