Nucula apicina, , Sabanea

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 : 42

apicina, Sabanea [ Pusillina inconspicua (Alder, 1844) ] ( Figures 13G, H )

1890a: 146 [XXXVIIIa: 900]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–22011 —19 + 2 sh “ S. apicina nov. sp. Monts ms. Funnazzi 1886” “Pal. 1886”// 7 sh “Palermo a gran prodondità”. Label in the box bottom “ S. apicina Monts ms. Conch. prof. Pal. 1889 p.4”

Type locality. Described from Palermo (Sicily).

Remarks. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as taxon inquirendum. The type material belongs to Pusillina inconspicua (Alder, 1844) [new synonymy].

Figures

FIGURE 13. A–C. Rissoa algeriana Monterosato, 1877, Algiers (Algeria), H. 4.4 mm and var. rufula H. 3.1 mm (ex Joly coll.), with original label (MCZR–M–22182); D–F. Zippora angustior Monterosato, 1917, Tripoli (Libya), H. 6.45 mm and H. 4.3 mm with original label (MCZR–M–30008); G, H. Sabanea apicina Monterosato, 1890, Palermo (Sicily), H. 1.9 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–22011); I, J. Rissoa aurita Monterosato, 1877, Algiers (Algeria), H. 3.1 mm (ex Joly coll.), with original labels (MCZR–M–22255); K, L. Cingula beniamina Monterosato, 1884, paralectotype, Trapani, (Sicily), H. 1.7 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–22252); M, N. Microsetia coelata Monterosato, 1884, lectotype, Ognina (Sicily), H. 0.9 mm with original label (MCZR–M–30009); O, P. Sabanea consimilis Monterosato, 1890, Palermo (Sicily), H. 2.2 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–30010); Q, R. Alvania consociella Monterosato, 1884, lectotype, Corsica (France), H. 3.3 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–22159).