NUCULIDAE, Gray, 1824

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 : 76

Family NUCULIDAE

† apicina, Nucula [ Nucula apicina Monterosato, 1891 ] taxon inquirendum ( Figures 34E, F )

1891a: 97 [XXXIX a: 929]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–30040 — 2 v dx “ Nucula apicina Monts S. Flavia ”

Type locality. Described from S. Flavia † and Altavilla † (Sicily).

Remarks. Monterosato (1891a: 97) explicitly reported a single specimen (a single valve?) from the Quaternary outcrop of Santa Flavia, near Altavilla Milicia (Palermo). At the end of the description he wrote that the species was also known from Altavilla Milicia. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as taxon inquirendum. However, La Perna (2007), after examination of the Monterosato material and additional material from the outcrop of Monti della Farnesina in Rome (Cerulli-Irelli coll., Palaeontological Museum of Sapienza University of Rome), regarded Nucula apicina as a full valid Plio-Pleistocene species, an interpretation that we share.

Figures

FIGURE 34. A, B. Leda producta Monterosato, 1880, Palermo (Sicily), 2.4 mm x 4.0 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 14425); C, D. Silicula tumidula Monterosato, 1880, lectotype, Palermo (Sicily), 0.7 m x 0.9 mm, with original label (MCZR– M–14434); E, F. Nucula apicina Monterosato, 1891, fossil of Santa Flavia (Sicily), 2.7 mm x 2.0 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–30040); G, H. Nucula perminima Monterosato, 1875, Sciacca (Sicily), H. 0.9 mm x 1.5 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–14376); I, J. Arca corbuloides Monterosato, 1880, Civitavecchia (Italy), 75 mm x 53.1 mm with original label (MCZR–M–14178); K, L. Crenella arenaria Monterosato, 1875, Sciacca (Sicily), 2.1 mm x 1.6 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–14017); M, N. Mytilus herculeus Monterosato, 1884, Sciacca (Sicily), 164 mm x 84.5 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–9788); O, P. Mytilus hyalinus Monterosato, 1875, Palermo (Sicily), 1.9 mm x 1.3 mm, with original label (MCZR– M–13973).