Bathyal Mollusca from the cold-water coral biotope of Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulian margin, southern Italy) Author Negri, Mauro Pietro Author Corselli, Cesare text Zootaxa 2016 4186 1 1 97 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4186.1.1 5b97cddd-5284-4a6b-8693-898864fb4711 1175-5326 165288 029B675F-776C-4CD6-9992-FA05AEADFA7B Mangelia nuperrima ( Tiberi, 1855 ) Fig. 15 e–h Pleurotoma nuperrimum Tiberi, 1855 (p. 14, pl. 2, figs. 7–9). Raphitoma nuperrimum Tiberi—Hidalgo 1917 (p. 586). Raphitoma ( Amblyacrum ) nuperrima (Tiberi) — Nordsieck 1968 (p. 178, pl. 30, fig. 94.40). Raphitoma nuperrima (Tiberi) — Di Geronimo & Panetta 1973 (p. 85, pl. 1, fig. 11). Pleurotomoides ( Acmaturris ) nuperrimum (Tiberi, 1878) — Nordsieck 1977 (p. 62, pl. 21, fig. 164). Mangelia nuperrima ( Tiberi, 1855 ) — Bouchet & Warén 1980 (p. 30, figs. 81, 215); Cossignani et al. 1992 (fig. 168); Giribet & Peñas 1997 (p. 72, figs. 52, 53); Repetto et al. 2005 (p. 208, mid left fig.). Diagnostic characters . Ovately fusiform shell; spire whorls angular at the adapical third; aperture elongate; wide siphonal canal; shallow C-shaped anal sinus; 13–15 slightly opisthocline axial ribs per whorl; fine spiral threads (2 per whorl); pointed nodes at the intersection of ribs and threads; dense microsculpture of spiral rows of granules throughout. Protoconch: low conical; 3.6-3.7 whorls; diameter about 860 µm (protoconch I: 270 µm); height about 1000 µm; first 1.25 whorls (protoconch I; transition to protoconch II undefined) with discontinuous spiral threads; subsequent whorls (protoconch II) bluntly angular, with fine opisthocyrt axial riblets ending in suprasutural spiral lira and microgranules, more densely spaced at riblets; transition to the teleoconch marked by a sinuated lip. Occurrence . Box-corer samples BC05 (2 specimens), BC72 (2); core BC05 (1). Maximum height: 7.5 mm . Distribution and habitat . The species is an upper bathyal element distributed in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, from British waters to the Lusitanian region ( Bouchet & Warén 1980 ). Fossil record. None recorded.