MYTILIDAE

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 : 77

Family MYTILIDAE

arenaria, Crenella [ Crenella arenaria Monterosato, 1875 ex H. Martin, ms.] ( Figures 34K, L )

1872b: 19 [VI: 101]—nomen nudum

1874a: 249 [X: 175]—nomen nudum

1875b: 10 [XIII: 236]—nomen nudum

1875c: 7 [XIV: 283]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–14017 —21 sh + 23 v + 15 frg “ Crenella ? arenaria Sciacca !”

Type locality. Described from Sciacca (Sicily).

Remarks. The species was described—very briefly indeed—in a paper on the shells collected from coralligenous bottoms off Sciacca (Sicily), thus the provenance of the material found in the Monterosato collection fits the Type locality. . The actual systematic position of the species is problematic and needs further investigation. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as Crenella arenaria Monterosato, 1875 ex H. Martin, ms.

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).