Pseudomalaxis actoni, Monterosato, 1913

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 : 65

actoni , Pseudomalaxis [ Pseudomalaxis zanclaeus ( Philippi, 1844) ] ( Figures 24M, N )

1913: 362, 363, 3 unnumb. figs [LIX: 1226, 1227, 3 unnumb. figs]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–21851 —1 sh “ Omalaxis zancleus, Ph. Sardegna Esemplare grande” “ Esemplare figurato” + 1 sh “ Omalaxis zanclea ( Bifrontia ) Phil. Algeri es. più piccolo”

Type locality. Described from Napoli ( Italy), Palermo (Sicily) , Sardinia and Algeria .

Remarks. Name proposed to distinguish the Recent species from the fossil Bifrontia zanclaea Philippi, 1844 , considered as distinct species. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as Pseudomalaxis zanclaeus ( Philippi, 1844) .

Figures

FIGURE 24. A, B. Murex brocchii Monterosato, 1872, Marsala (Sicily), H. 12.7 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–7986); C, D. Ocinebrina cyclopus Monterosato, 1884 ex Benoit ms., Palermo (Sicily), H. 13 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–30033); E, F. Epidromus gladiolus Monterosato, 1880, Alessandria (Egypt), H. 7.4 mm (ex Lhotellerie coll.), with original labels (MCZR–M–8324); G, H. Ocinebrina nicolai Monterosato, 1884, Lipari Is., H. 19.7 mm (ex Seguenza G. coll.), with original label (MCZR–M–30034); I, J. Pyrula panormitana Monterosato, 1869, Palermo (Sicily), H. 15.5 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–8032); K, L. Acteon candidulus Monterosato, 1923, Benghazi (Libya), H. 7.5 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 16053); M, N. Pseudomalaxis actoni Monterosato,1913, Sardinia, D. 15.3 mm, with original label and drawings (MCZR–M– 21851); O, P. Pseudomalaxis centrifuga Monterosato, 1890, Madeira, D. 4.25 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–30035).