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 Author Appolloni, Massimo Author Smriglio, Carlo Author Amati, Bruno Author Lugliè, Lorenzo Author Nofroni, Italo Author Tringali, Lionello P. Author Mariottini, Paolo Author Oliverio, Marco text Zootaxa 2018 2018-09-14 4477 1 1 138 journal article 29178 10.11646/zootaxa.4477.1.1 5846b72f-37ca-4033-af93-c20fb297add9 1175-5326 1454652 5A6191BD-03BA-4374-B779-B3E73652BC7C scopulosus, Vermetus [ Thylacodes arenarius (Linnaeus, 1758) ] ( Figures 19M, N ) 1892c: 32, pl. III, figs 5, 6 [XLIV: 1034, 1055, figs 5, 6]—available name Type material. MCZR–M–5777 —1 sh “Serpulorbis scopulosus Monts Palermo all’Aspra. maggio 1892 forma discoidea non figurata”// 5 sh “ V. (Serpulorbis) scopulosus Monts Palermo , all’Aspra littorale Monogr. Verm. 1892 t . IV f. 4, 5.” MCZR–M–5780 —2 sh “ V. scopulosus vr. Palermo all’Aspra” MCZR–M–5790 —4 sh “ V. (Serpulorbis) scopulosus Monts Monog. vermeti. p. 32 e pag 33 var. discodea . t. III, f. 5 1892 Palermo!” Type locality. Described from Mediterranean Sea ( V. gigas var. angulata Monterosato, 1878 ), Mondello and Aspra ( Sicily ; form b, discoidea ). Remarks. Name proposed for Vermetus gigas var. angulata Monterosato, 1878 (nomen nudum) raised to specific rank in 1892. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Thylacodes arenarius (Linnaeus, 1758) .