Pyramidella mediterranea, , Turritella

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 : 35-36

mediterranea, Turritella [ Turritella turbona Monterosato, 1877 ] ( Figures 10E, F )

1890a: 148 [XXXVIIIa: 902]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–21361 —8 sh “ Turritella mediterranea Monts. Napoli—Palermo DP. Poc.”// 1 sh “ Turritella mediterranea Monts. Palermo !”

Other material. MCZR–M–21391 —1 sh “ T. Mediterranea v. elata M. Catania ”

MCZR–M–21402 —4 sh “Turr. medit. var. stricta M. Capri !”

Type locality. Described from Mediterranean (“nostri mari”).

Remarks. Monterosato (1890a: 148, 149) introduced T. mediterranea as the correct name for the Recent species erroneously identified by his contemporaries as “ Turritella triplicata Brocchi, 1814 ”, the latter being a Tertiary fossil species. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Turritella communis Risso, 1826 , which is clearly wrong. Although the possibility that it represents a fourth distinct species in the Mediterranean (as held by e.g. Parenzan, 1970) is worthy of further testing (ideally by genetic data), we adopt the conservative position of including T. mediterranea in the synonymy of T. turbona Monterosato, 1877 [new synonymy].

† planulata, Turritella [ Turritella planulata Monterosato, 1891 ] taxon inquirendum

1891b: 121 [XL: 937]—available name

Type material. Not found

Type locality. Described from Santa Flavia † (Sicily).

Remarks. A name introduced with a description in a work on the Quaternary fossil shells of Santa Flavia, near Altavilla (Sicily), to distinguish a species similar to T. triplicata Brocchi, 1814 , but thinner and with flatter whorls. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as taxon inquirendum. It may represent a distinct fossil species.

Figures

FIGURE 10. A, B. Turritella britannica Monterosato, 1890, England, H. 59.8 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–21397); C, D. Turritella decipiens Monterosato, coasts of Barberia (Tunisia), H. 17.4 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–21434); E, F. Turritella mediterranea Monterosato, 1890, Palermo (Sicily), H. 51.1 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–21361); G, H. Turritella turbona Monterosato, 1877, Civitavecchia (Italy), H. 39.2 mm, (ex Donati coll.) with original label (MCZR–M– 21406); I, J. Scalaria candidissima Monterosato, 1877, Algiers (Algeria), H. 9.98 mm, and H. 5.2 mm, no label (MCZR–M– 30007); K, L. Scalaria commutata Monterosato, 1877, Palermo (Sicily), H. 14.3 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–23554); M, N. Hyaloscala finitima Monterosato, 1890, Gulf of Napoli (Italy), H. 3.8 mm, (ex Acton coll.) with original labels (MCZR– M–23502); O, P. Scalaria hispidula Monterosato, 1874, Palermo (Sicily), H. 3.05 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M– 23621); Q, R. Scalaria jolyi Monterosato, 1878, Algiers (Algeria) H. 13.1 mm, (ex Joly coll.) with original labels (recto-verso) (MCZR–M–23494); S, T. Linctoscala lacerata Monterosato, 1890, fossil of Ficarazzi (Sicily), H. 19.5 mm with original labels (MCZR–M–23441); U, V. Linctoscala lincta Monterosato, 1890, paralectotype, Palermo (Sicily), H. 4.9 mm (ex De Boury coll.), with original label (MCZR–M–23500).