Trivia spongicola, Monterosato, 1923

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 : 52

spongicola , Trivia [ Trivia spongicola Monterosato, 1923 ] ( Figures 19A, B )

1923: 11 [LXVIII: 1316]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–30025/L —1 sh (Lectotype) “ T. spongicola M. Sfax!”, designated by Smriglio et al. (1998).

MCZR –M–30025/P— 5 sh (Paralectotypes) “ T. spongicola M. Sfax!”

Type locality. Sfax ( Tunisia) . Described also from Zueitina (Libya).

Remarks. Fehse (2002: 12) wrongly used Niveria spongicola as a substitute name for the preoccupied Trivia pulex [currently T. mediterranea (Risso, 1826) ], although Trivia spongicola is only known as endemic to the area from the Gulf of Gabès to the Gulf of Sirte. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as Trivia spongicola Monterosato, 1923 .

Figures

FIGURE 19. A, B. Trivia spongicola Monterosato, 1923, lectotype, Sfax (Tunisia), H. 7.1 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 30025); C, D. Vermetus anguliferus Monterosato, 1884, Tripoli (Libya), 71.8 mm (aggregate), with original label (MCZR–M– 30026); E, F. Vermetus erroneous Monterosato, 1889, Mondello (Sicily), L. 21.1 x 14.3 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 21216); G, H. Vermetus gregarius Monterosato, 1878, Palermo (Sicily), L. 107.5 mm (aggregate), with original label (MCZR– M–30027); I, J. Vermetus horridus Monterosato, 1892, Palermo (Sicily) L. 64.7 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–5794); K, L. Vermetus rugulosus Monterosato, 1878, Arenella, Palermo (Sicily) L. 6.6 mm (aggregate), with original label (MCZR– M–21284); M, N. Vermetus scopulosus Monterosato, 1892, Palermo (Sicily) L. 48.2 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 5790); O, P. Vermetus selectus Monterosato, 1878, Palermo (Sicily) L. 189 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–5778); Q, R. Vermetus serpuloides Monterosato, 1892, Acitrezza (Sicily), L. 102 mm (aggregate), with original label (MCZR–M–5801).