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 Akritogyra conspicua (Monterosato, 1880) Fig. 13 a–c Cyclostrema conspicuum Monterosato, 1880 [a] (p. 66). Cyclostrema valvatoides Forbes—Di Geronimo & Bellagamba 1985 (pl. 2, figs. 1–2). Akritogyra conspicua (Monterosato, 1880) —Warén 1991[a] (p. 163, figs. 14 C–D, 15 D–F); Giannuzzi-Savelli et al. 1994 (p. 104, fig. 345); Repetto et al. 2005 (p. 90, bottom left fig.). Diagnostic characters . Depressed trochiform, thin shell; flattened spire; large rounded aperture; moderately wide umbilicus; smooth outer surface. Protoconch: very low-spired; 1.25 whorls; diameter about 300 µm; smooth surface (poorly preserved); transition to the teleoconch marked by a thin lip. Occurrence . Cores BC05 (1 specimen), BC51 (1). Maximum height: 1.5 mm . Distribution and habitat . Akritogyra conspicua is an endemic Mediterranean species, found in both the western and the eastern basins between 100 and 2400 m depth, sometimes in proximity of cold seeps (Warén 1991[a]; Pons-Moyà & Pons 2000 ; Galil 2004 ; Ritt et al. 2011). Fossil record. Pleistocene ( Upper Glacial ) of Sardinia ( Di Geronimo & Bellagamba 1985 ).