Tricoliella candidula, Monterosato, 1917

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 : 23-24

candidula , Tricolia [ Tricolia tenuis (Michaud, 1829) ] ( Figures 2A, B )

1917: 11, add. figs to pl. I, fig. 33 [LXVII: 1285]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–10745 —4 sh “Trap.” “ Tricoliella candidula Monts ”.

Type locality. Described from Trapani (Sicily).

Remarks. The species was described in a paper on the molluscs from Tripolitania ( Libya), yet Monterosato (1917: 11) wrote that it was not found there, but rather it was not rare at Trapani (Western Sicily), and figured (1917: add. figs to pl. I, fig. 33) a shell from Trapani. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Tricolia tenuis (Michaud, 1829) .

dubia, Eudora [ Tricolia pullus picta (da Costa, 1778)] ( Figures 2C, D )

1889c: 31 [XXXV: 863]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–10723 —6 sh “ E. dubia dal Marocco a Casa Blanca”// 6 sh “Casa Blanca ( Maroc)”. Label on the bottom “ Eudora dubia Monts Casa Blanca ( Maroc) ”

Type locality. Described from Casablanca ( Morocco).

Remarks. A synonym of Tricolia pullus picta (da Costa, 1778), according to Gofas (1982: 189). Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Tricolia pullus picta (da Costa, 1778).

Figures

FIGURE 2. A, B. Tricoliella candidula Monterosato, 1917, Trapani (Sicily), H. 6.1 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 10745); C, D. Eudora dubia Monterosato, 1889, Casablanca (Morocco), H. 10.2 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–10723); E–H. Tricoliella jolyi Monterosato, 1889, Oran (Algeria), H. 2.1 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–30051); I, J. Cyclostrema conspicuum Monterosato, 1880, lectotype, Palermo (Sicily), D 1.9 mm with original labels (MCZR–M–30002); K, L. Cyclostrema bithynoides Monterosato, 1880, Palermo (Sicily), H. 0.87 mm with original labels (MCZR–M–11787); M, N. Cyclostrema catenoides Monterosato, 1877, Magnisi (Sicily), D. 1,1 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–11807); O, P. Circulus jeffreysii Monterosato, 1872, Palermo (Sicily) D. 1 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–21809); Q, R. Zizyphinus aequistriatus Monterosato, 1884, Palermo (Sicily), H. 8.6 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–11688); S, T. Trochocochlea arenosa Monterosato, 1923, Benghazi, (Libya), H. 18 mm, with original label (recto-verso) (MCZR–M–11071); U, V. Jujubinus aureus Monterosato, 1890, Palermo (Sicily), H. 13.3 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–30003).