Pleurotoma nuperrimum Tiberi, 1855
Raphitoma nuperrimum Tiberi—Hidalgo 1917
Mangelia nuperrima ( Tiberi, 1855 )
Bathyal Mollusca from the cold-water coral biotope of Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulian margin, southern Italy)
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Corselli, Cesare
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Tiberi, 1855
Tiberi
1855
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Gastropoda
Mangeliidae
Mangelia
Animalia
Neogastropoda
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Mollusca
species
nuperrima
Pleurotoma nuperrimum Tiberi, 1855(p. 14, pl. 2, figs. 7–9). Raphitoma nuperrimumTiberi—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.