Helix bellinii Bellini, 1915: 166

Fasulo, Giuseppe, Duraccio, Sergio, Federico, Antonio & Crocetta, Fabio, 2019, The (almost) unknown Italian naturalist Raffaello Bellini (1874 - 1930): biography malacological publications, and status of his recent molluscan taxa, Zootaxa 4668 (3), pp. 343-369 : 359

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Helix bellinii Bellini, 1915: 166 [ex Monterosato ms.]

Type locality: Capri Island (Naples, Italy) .

Original description: “affine alla H. Cerioi , ma più piccola e più depressa” [similar to H. cerioi— see above for discussions on this taxon —, but smaller and more depressed].

Material examined: two shells labelled by Monterosato “ Helix Bellinii, Monts mss.—Villa Bellini a Cata-nia— 26 Marzo 1891 ” (MCZR-M-1286) belongs to the Cernuella cisalpina (Rossmässler, 1837) species complex ( Fig. 7A, B View FIGURE 7 ). Petraccioli (2005) mentioned the presence of specimens preserved in MCCIC holding original labels handwritten by Bellini, but without listing the exact location. We were not able to find them.

Remarks: considered a junior synonym of Monacha gregaria (Rossmässler, 1839) by Sacchi (1955b) and of Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803) by Petraccioli (2005). Alzona (1971) initially considered Helix bellinii Bellini, 1915 a synonym of M. gregaria and then a species dubia. Monacha gregaria is now considered a Sicilian endemic ( Bodon et al. 1995; Welter-Schultes 2012), and in this line Petraccioli et al. (2006) excluded its presence from Capri. Monacha cantiana , as well as H. cerioi (see above for a taxonomic status similar to that of H. bellinii ), were also considered originally uncommon in Capri Island by Bellini (1900a); Petraccioli et al. (2005, 2006) did not find it during recent samplings held in Capri Island, and only listed Monacha cartusiana (Müller, 1774) as present. Noteworthy, species-level taxonomy of the genus Monacha Fitzinger, 1833 , and particularly of the M. cantiana species complex, is still unresolved ( Welter-Schultes 2012; Neiber & Hausdorf 2016; Pieńkowska et al. 2018, 2019). Apart of that, the absence of type material and even figures in any paper published by Bellini, as well as the taxonomic status of H. cerioi to which it is compared (see above), led to the conclusion that it is considered a nomen dubium ( ICZN 2012: glossary).

References

Alzona, C. (1971) Malacofauna Italica. Catalogo e bibliografia dei molluschi viventi, terrestri e d'acqua dolce. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 111, 1 - 433.

Bellini, R. (1900 a) I molluschi extramarini dell'isola di Capri. Bollettino della Societa Zoologica Italiana, Series 2, 1 (1 - 2), 29 - 55.

Bellini, R. (1915) I molluschi extramarini dei dintorni di Napoli. Monografia sintetica. Bollettino della Societa dei Naturalisti in Napoli, Series 2, 27, 149 - 194.

Bodon, M., Favilli, L., Giannuzzi-Savelli, R., Giovine, F., Giusti, F., Manganelli, G., Melone, G., Oliverio, M., Sabelli, B. & Spada, G. (1995) Fascicolo 14. Gastropoda Prosobranchia Heterobranchia Heterostropha. In: Minelli, A., Ruffo, S. & La Posta, S. (Eds.), Checklist delle specie della fauna d'Italia, 14, pp. 1 - 60.

ICZN [International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature] (2012) International code of zoological nomenclature. 4 th Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London. Available from: http: // www. iczn. org / (accessed 15 Feburary 2019)

Petraccioli, A., Barattolo, F., Crovato, P., Cretella, M., Maio, N. & Aprea, G. (2005) Guida pratica al riconoscimento dei macrogasteropodi terrestri attuali e fossili dell'Isola di Capri. Bollettino Sezione Campania ANISN, 29, 19 - 48.

Petraccioli, A., Crovato, P., Cretella, M., Maio, N., Aprea, G. & Barattolo, F. (2006) I Gasteropodi continentali dell'Isola di Capri: risultati preliminari. In: Guglielmi, R. & Nappi, A. (Eds.), La Natura in Campania: aspetti biotici e abiotici. Gruppo Attivo Campano A. R. C. A. - Onlus, Napoli, pp. 77 - 86.

Pienkowska, J. R., Manganelli, G., Giusti, F., Hallgass, A. & Lesicki, A. (2018) Exploring Monacha cantiana (Montagu, 1803) phylogeography: cryptic lineages and new insights into the origin of the English populations (Eupulmonata, Stylommatophora, Hygromiidae). ZooKeys, 765, 1 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 765.24386

Pienkowska, J. R., Manganelli, G., Giusti, F., Barbato, D., Hallgass, A. & Lesicki, A. (2019) Exploration of phylogeography of Monacha cantiana s. l. continues: the populations of the Apuan Alps (NW Tuscany, Italy) (Eupulmonata, Stylommatophora, Hygromiidae). Zookeys, 814, 115 - 149. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 814.31583

Sacchi, C. F. (1955 b) Contributo alla conoscenza faunistica della Campania. Ricerche malacologiche nella regione sorrentina. II. Appunti biogeografici. Annuario dell'Istituto e Museo di Zoologia Universita di Napoli, 6 (5), 1 - 14.

Welter-Schultes, F. (2012) European non-marine molluscs, a guide for species identification. Planet Poster Editions, Gottingen, 680 pp.

Figures

FIGURE 7. A, B. Helix bellinii. A. Shells from Catania (11.6×16.2 mm, 11.5×14.9 mm). B. Original labels handwritten by Monterosato. MCZR-M-1286. C, D. Helix (Xerophila) subprofuga var. turriculata. C. Material from Capri Island (Naples) (3–6×5–9 mm). D. Original label handwritten by Bellini. MCCIC—drawer 19, n. 297a.