Ringicula conformis, Monterosato, 1877

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 : 71

conformis , Ringicula [ Ringicula conformis Monterosato, 1877 ] ( Figures 28I, J )

1875b: 45 [XIII: 271]—as Ringicula auriculata var. conformis —nomen nudum

1877a: 44, pl. II, fig. 4 [XV: 314, pl. V, fig. 4]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–16280 —5 sh “ Algiers (Joly) form 1a”// 2 sh “ Algiers (Joly) forma 2a”// 7 sh and several fragments, “ R. conformis v. eburnea M. Palermo !”. Labels on box bottom: “Ringiculella, Sacco, R. conformis ed altre sp. Cat. 1875 (Monts.), “ R. conformis typ. foss. Ficarazzi Palermo S. Vito et var. eburnea et semicostata Malaga (Prieto) Provenza (Sollier) Sardegna Cagliari (Fra Piero) Tiberi, Madera (Watson come R. _), Corfù (Chaster) Algeria, Toscana ”.

Type locality. Described from Mediterranean Sea.

Remarks. Detailed discussion of this species and its type material can be found in Oliverio & Tringali (2001: 124, figs 1a–b; 125, figs 12a–b, 13–15; 126, figs 20–22, 24–25), who also stressed the distinction from Ringicula auriculata (Ménard de la Groye, 1811) , on protoconch and teleoconch characters. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as Ringicula conformis Monterosato, 1877 .

Figures

FIGURE 28. A, B. Auriculina scandens Monterosato, 1884 ex Brugnone ms., Trapani (Sicily), H. 2.4 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–23814); C, D. Odostomia sigmoidea Monterosato, 1880, Algiers (Algeria), H. 2.7 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–23717); E, F. Turbonilla subulina Monterosato, 1889, Mogador (Morocco), H. 8.1 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–23851); G, H. Odostomia turriculata Monterosato, 1869, Ognina (Sicily), H. 2.65 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–23645); I, J. Ringicula conformis Monterosato, 1877, Algiers (Algeria), H. 3.3 mm, with original labels (MCZR– M–16280); K, L. Hela inflata Monterosato, 1880, Palermo (Sicily), H. 1.35 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–21845); M, N. Skenea pellucida Monterosato, 1874, paralectotype, Palermo (Sicily) D. 1.5 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–22108); O, P. Adeorbis imperspicuus Monterosato, 1875, Palermo (Sicily), D. 0.9 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–30038).