Fabulina fabuloides, Monterosato, 1884

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 : 85

fabuloides , Fabulina [ Fabulina fabula (Gmelin, 1791) ] ( Figures 38J, K )

1884h: 21 [XXXI: 677]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–20217 —1 sh “Pesaro d. F. L. Appelius”// 2 v “ Corsica Neville”// 3 sh “ Corsica Neville”// 1 v “Alessandria (Lothellerie)”// 22 sh “Porto Maurizio Sulliotti”// 4 sh + 1 v “Livorno F.lli Caifassi”// 6 sh + 1 v “Chioggia” Label on the box bottom “Tell. Fabuloides Monts. Conch. Med. 1884 vide Locard in Coq. Mar. france p. 275”

Type locality. Described from Mediterranean Sea.

Remarks. Name proposed to distinguish the Mediterranean form of Tellina fabula Gmelin, 1791 (as “ T. fabula Gronovius 1791 ”, non binomial) considered to be different from the Atlantic species. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Fabulina fabula (Gmelin, 1791) .

commutata , Macoma [ Macomangulus tenuis (da Costa, 1778)] ( Figures 38L, M )

1884h: 23[XXXI: 679]—available name

Type material. MNHNS–50377 — Tellina tenuis var. angusta Philippi, 1836 —5 syntypes + 19 v ( Coan & Kabat, 2017: 84)

Historical material. MCZR –M–30044— 2 sh “C. di Prov. Roussillon Dautzenberg”// 2 v “Adr. Pegorari”// 1 sh “Civitavecchia (Donati)”. Label on the box bottom: “Tell. commutata Monts. = tenuis var. augusta Ph. = T. hyaline Desh.—Exp. Moree 1832, p. 93, t. 18, f. 12—14. Non T. hyalina, Gm. esot.”

Type locality. Described from Sicily ( Philippi, 1836).

Remarks. Nomen novum pro Tellina tenuis var. angusta Philippi, 1836 (raised to species rank), because of the synonymy with Tellina angusta Gmelin, 1791 . The next available synonym, Tellina hyalina Deshayes, 1832 is also preoccupied by T. hyalina Gmelin, 1791 . Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Macomangulus tenuis (da Costa, 1778).

Figures

FIGURE 38. A, B. Serrula clodiensis Monterosato, 1884, Chioggia (Italy), 24.8 mm x 13.7 mm, with original label (MCZR– M–19390); C–E. Donax fabula Monterosato, 1923, Benghazi (Libya), (C) 19.3 mm x 12.2 mm (D) 16.9 mm x 11.3 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–30043); F, G. Donax relevatus Monterosato, 1917, Gabès (Tunisia), 26.1 mm x 13.4 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–19320); H, I. Scrobicularia subangulata Monterosato, 1884, Dalmatia (Croatia), 16.4 mm x 12.7 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–20362); J, K. Fabulina fabuloides Monterosato, 1884, Pesaro (Italy), 12.1 mm x 7.54 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–20217); L, M. Macoma commutata Monterosato, 1884, Adriatic Sea (Italy), 4.5 mm x 6.9 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–30044); N, O. Panopaea cyclopana Monterosato, 1889, Ciclopi Islands, Catania (Sicily), 211 mm x 126.8 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–5912).