Gryphaea navicula, , Gryphaea

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

navicula, Gryphaea [ Neopycnodonte cochlear (Poli, 1795) ] ( Figures 36A, B )

1884h: 5 [XXXI: 661]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–5466 — 7 v “Sciacca”// 1 sh “(Pycnodonte) Gryphaea navicula in Nat. Sic. 1884 estratto Nomencl. gen. e sp. p. 5 (typus) fondi coralligeni di Sciacca (Monts Del Prete)”

MCZR –M–5504 —1 sh “ Gryphaea !! Navicula, Monts. Palermo n. sp.”

MCZR–M–5634 —1 sh + 10 v “ Pycnodonta navicula Monts (Ostrea) 1884 Nomencl. gen. e sp. p. 5 Sciacca”.

Type locality. Described from Sciacca , Palermo (Sicily), Patrasso ( Greece).

Remarks. Subsequently figured (1915, pl. IV, fig. 1). Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as taxon inquirendum. Wisshak et al. (2008) convincingly suggested that it is a synonym of Neopycnodonte cochlear (Poli, 1795) a position that we share.

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).