Ostreola crustacea, , Ostreola

Appolloni, Massimo, Smriglio, Carlo, Amati, Bruno, Lugliè, Lorenzo, Nofroni, Italo, Tringali, Lionello P., Mariottini, Paolo & Oliverio, Marco, 2018, 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, Zootaxa 4477 (1), pp. 1-138 : 80

crustacea, Ostreola [ Ostrea stentina Payraudeau, 1826 ] ( Figures 36C, D )

1915: 6 (12), pl. IV, figs 6, 7 [LXV: 1256, 1268A, figs 6, 7]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–5492 —1 sh “ Ostreola crustacea Monts Porto di Palermo da figurare” MCZR –M–30041 — 10 v “ Ostreola crustacea Monts, Palermo ”

MCZR –M–30042 —6 sh “ Ostreola crustacea var. opercularis Viareggio ! da figurare”

Type locality. Described from Palermo ( Sicily) and Viareggio ( Italy).

Remarks. The syntype in box 5492 was figured in the original work (1915: pl. IV, fig. 6), whereas the other figure showed a syntype of the lot from Viareggio sent by Del Prete, which Monterosato distinguished as var. “ opercularis ”. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Ostrea stentina Payraudeau, 1826 .

Figures

FIGURE 36. A, B. Gryphaea navicula Monterosato, 1884, Palermo (Sicily), 40.3 mm x 26.3 mm, with original label (MCZR– M–5504); C, D. Ostreola crustacea Monterosato, 1915, Palermo (Sicily), 56.5 mm x 48.9 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 5492); E, F. Ostrea dianae Monterosato, 1915, Etang de Diane (France), 116 mm x 75.5 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M– 5664); G. Ostrea scaeva Monterosato, 1915, Palermo (Sicily), 72 mm x 82.2 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–5551); H. Pinna ensiformis Monterosato, 1884, only original label; I, J. Meleagrina savignyi Monterosato, 1884, Alessandria (Egypt), 42.6 mm x 42.2 mm (ex Lhotellerie coll), with original labels (MCZR–M–13835); K, L. Chama circinata Monterosato, 1878, Lipari Is., 35.5 mm x 31.8 mm (ex Seguenza G. coll.), with original label (MCZR–M–15270); M, N. Lepton lepisma Monterosato, 1878. Algiers (Algeria), 5.4 mm x 5.1 mm (ex Joly coll.), with original labels (MCZR–M–14683).