Acteon candidulus, Appolloni & Smriglio & Amati & Lugliè & Nofroni & Tringali & Mariottini & Oliverio, 2018

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 : 64-65

candidulus , Acteon [ Acteon tornatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) ] ( Figures 24K, L )

1923: 12 [LXVIII: 1317]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–16053 —2 sh “ Acteon candidulus, Monts. n. sp. Bengasi!”.

Type locality. Described from coasts of Cirenaica ( Libya).

Remarks. Smriglio & Mariottini (1996: 189, 191; 190, figs 17a–18b) and Oliverio & Tringali (2001: 127; 124, fig. 4; 125, fig. 11) already examined the couple of very worn shells that constitute the type material kept in the Monterosato collection. Both works considered Acteon candidulus a junior synonym of Acteon tornatilis

(Linnaeus, 1758). Subsequently figured (1917, fig. 17) Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Acteon tornatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) .

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).