Columbella cuneata, , Columbella

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 : 56

cuneata, Columbella [ Columbella rustica (Linnaeus, 1758) ] ( Figures 20G, H )

1892c: 24, pl. 1 figs 12, 13 [XLIV: 1026, 1050, 1051, figs 12, 13]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–18594 —25 sh “ C. cuneata typ. Monts Spugne di Sfax!”// 6 sh “ C. cuneata albida M. Spugne”// 1 sh “ Columbella cuneata albina, Monts L. Spugne di Sfax!”// 4 sh “ var marmorata Monts, Spugne ” MCZR –M–18572 —56 sh “ Columbella cuneata, Monts Sponge de Sfax!”

MCZR –M–21246 —9 sh “ C. cuneata Coste di Barbaria ” with attached vermetids, same as figured in the 1892 paper.

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

Remarks. Introduced without description, as the substrate of a vermetid, and then figured (with the binomen) in the plate of the vermetid revision. Settepassi (1985) figured 4 syntypes from Sfax as Columbella (Columbella) rustica cuneata Pallary ‘Monterosato’. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as taxon inquirendum. It is a form of the common Columbella rustica (Linnaeus, 1758) ] [new synonymy].

hidalgoi , Mitrella [ Mitrella broderipii (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844) ] ( Figures 20I, J )

1889d: 116 [XXXVI: 876]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–18486 —5 sh “ C. hidalgoi Monts. Cadix (Hidalgo) ”// 1 sh “ C. hidalgoi Monts Tanger 1–2 m.” label Pallary’s handwrite. Label on the bottom “Columb. hidalgoi Monts J. de C. 1889 p. 116 = Pall. J. de C. 1902 p. 11 pl. 1, f. 5, 6,7. Tanger et Cap. Spartel”.

Type locality. Described from Casablanca and Tangier ( Morocco), Cadiz ( Spain).

Remarks. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Mitrella broderipii (G. B. Sowerby I, 1844) .

Figures

FIGURE 20. A, B. Vermetus spirintortus Monterosato, 1892, Algeria, L. 2.4 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–21264); C, D. Vermetus verrucosus Monterosato, 1878, Aspra, Palermo (Sicily), L. 56.5 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–5796). E, F. Pollia coccinea Monterosato, 1884, Palermo (Sicily), H. 15.5 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–30028); G, H. Columbella cuneata Monterosato, 1892, Sfax (Tunisia), H. 19.94 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–18594); I, J. Mitrella hidalgoi Monterosato, 1889, Cadiz (Morocco) H. 6.5 mm (ex Hidalgo coll.), with original labels (MCZR–M–18486); K, L. Pseudofusus gigliolii Monterosato, 1890, ‘Spedizione italiana del Washington’, H. 23.0 mm, with original label (recto-verso) (MCZR–M– 17431); M, N. Pseudofusus labronicus Monterosato, 1884, Livorno (Italy), H. 13.3 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M– 30029); O, P. Pseudofusus latiroides Monterosato, 1890 ex Di Blasi ms., fossil of Monte Pellegrino (Sicily), H. 28.2 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–17365); Q–S. Pseudofusus parvulus Monterosato, 1884, paralectotypes, Palermo (Sicily), H. 11.1 mm and H. 12.6 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–17464); T, U. Trophon rusticulus Monterosato, 1880, coasts of Barberia (Tunisia), H. 9.2 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–17419).