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 37873 10.11646/zootaxa.4186.1.1 5b97cddd-5284-4a6b-8693-898864fb4711 1175-5326 165288 029B675F-776C-4CD6-9992-FA05AEADFA7B Xylophaga dorsalis ( Turton, 1819 ) Fig. 9 g–i Teredo dorsalis Turton, 1819 (p. 185). Xylophaga dorsalis — Turton 1822 (pp. 16, 253; pl. 2, figs. 4–5). Xylophaga dorsalis Turton—Jeffreys 1882 [a] (p. 947); Hidalgo 1917 (p. 744); Tebble 1966 (p. 187, text-fig. 100c). Xylophaga dorsalis dorsalis ( Turton, 1819 ) — Nordsieck 1969 (p. 153, pl. 22, fig. 87.30). Xylophaga dorsalis (Turton) — Di Geronimo & Panetta 1973 (p. 110). Xylophaga dorsalis ( Turton, 1819 ) — Cossignani et al. 1992 (figs. 397–397A); Poppe & Goto , 1993 (p. 132, pl. 25, fig. 7); Giribet & Peñas 1997 (fig. 108); Repetto et al. 2005 (p. 349, mid left fig.); Oliver et al ., 2016 (online resource). Diagnostic characters . Subrounded shell; segmented internal umbonal-ventral ridge ending in a rounded condyle; hook-like denticle on the ventral part of the umbonal reflection; median shallow radial depression bordered backward by a strong radial rib; finely granulose commarginal ribs on the anterior half, abruptly curved downward at the anterior one-fourth. Prodissoconch: shell type ST-2A; length about 270 µm; roundish outline; convex profile; P-1 not visible (but smaller than 100 µm); P-2 with regular low commarginal cordlets throughout and fine radials on the abapical stages; transition to the nepioconch rather well marked. Occurrence . Box-corer samples BC66 (3 specimens), BC72 (10); cores BC05 (5), BC21 (1), BC51 (1), BC72 (3). Maximum length: about 5 mm . Distribution and habitat . The species is reported to be widespread in the Atlantic (Lofoten to the Azores ) and Mediterranean, being a wood-boring eurybathic element distributed from intertidal to bathyal depths ( Nordsieck 1969 ; Di Geronimo & Panetta 1973 ; Di Geronimo et al. 2001 ; Oliver et al. 2016 ). It was regarded as accidental in VP (bathyal mud) biocoenosis ( Pérès & Picard 1964 ). Fossil record. Miocene to Recent of the Mediterranean ( Di Geronimo & Bellagamba 1985 ; Monegatti & Raffi 2001 ).