HALIOTIDAE, Rafinesque, 1815

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

Family HALIOTIDAE

secernenda , Haliotis [ Haliotis mykonosensis Owen, Hanavan & Hall, 2001 ] ( Figures 1P–R)

1877d: 416 [XVIII: 352]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–11852 —14 sh “ secernenda juvenis Palermo!”// 4 sh “N.B. gli esemplari senza etichetta sono tutti di Palermo”

MCZR –M–11854 —2 sh “ H. secernenda Corsica d. Ponsonby ”

MCZR–M–11858 —9 sh “Hal. reticulata Reeve = secernenda Monts. (Brugnone) ” [Monterosato started using ‘ Haliotis reticulata Reeve’ in 1884, thus this is possibly not type material]

Type locality. Described from Mediterranean Sea.

Remarks. Monterosato (1877d: 416) described H. secernenda as a form (smaller, flat, dark coloured, with a sculpture of weak cords only, more iridescent, and with straight peristome) of Haliotis lamellosa Lamarck, 1822 . Later, he raised the name to specific rank (1884a: 104), making it available since the original date of publication, viz. 1877 ( ICZN, 1999: art. 45.6.4.1). MolluscaBase (2018) records Haliotis tuberculata var. secernenda in the synonymy of H. tuberculata tuberculata based on Geiger & Poppe (2000). However, the shell characters of H. secernenda are the same diagnostic for H. mykonosensis Owen, Hanavan & Hall, 2001 [new synonymy] (see also Geiger & Owen, 2012).