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
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Appolloni, Massimo
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Smriglio, Carlo
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Amati, Bruno
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Lugliè, Lorenzo
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Nofroni, Italo
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Tringali, Lionello P.
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Mariottini, Paolo
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Oliverio, Marco
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-09-14
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spirilla
,
Hyaloscala
[
Epitonium spirillum
(Monterosato, 1890)
] (
Figures 11A, B
)
1890a: 150 [XXXVIIIa: 904]—available name
Type material. MCZR–M–23467
—17 sh “
Sc. spirilla Monts Nat. Sic. 1890
p. 11 Palermo” “
Scalaria spirilla
n. sp.
Monts. ms. Palermo”
Type
locality.
Described
from
Palermo
(
Sicily
).
Remarks.
Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of
Epitonium clathratulum
(Kanmacher, 1798)
. However,
Epitonium spirillum
differs from
E. clathratulum
in its smaller size, fewer and more lamellose axial ribs, squared whorls, larger and more acute protoconch. We consider
E. spirillum
as a valid species [
new status
] that replaces
E. clathratulum
in most of (if not all) the Mediterranean.