Vermetus scopulosus, , Vermetus

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 : 54

scopulosus, Vermetus [ Thylacodes arenarius (Linnaeus, 1758) ] ( Figures 19M, N )

1892c: 32, pl. III, figs 5, 6 [XLIV: 1034, 1055, figs 5, 6]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–5777 —1 sh “Serpulorbis scopulosus Monts Palermo all’Aspra. maggio 1892 forma discoidea non figurata”// 5 sh “ V. (Serpulorbis) scopulosus Monts Palermo , all’Aspra littorale Monogr. Verm. 1892 t. IV f. 4, 5.”

MCZR–M–5780 —2 sh “ V. scopulosus vr. Palermo all’Aspra”

MCZR–M–5790 —4 sh “ V. (Serpulorbis) scopulosus Monts Monog. vermeti. p. 32 e pag 33 var. discodea . t. III, f. 5 1892 Palermo!”

Type locality. Described from Mediterranean Sea ( V. gigas var. angulata Monterosato, 1878 ), Mondello and Aspra (Sicily; form b, discoidea).

Remarks. Name proposed for Vermetus gigas var. angulata Monterosato, 1878 (nomen nudum) raised to specific rank in 1892. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Thylacodes arenarius (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Figures

FIGURE 19. A, B. Trivia spongicola Monterosato, 1923, lectotype, Sfax (Tunisia), H. 7.1 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 30025); C, D. Vermetus anguliferus Monterosato, 1884, Tripoli (Libya), 71.8 mm (aggregate), with original label (MCZR–M– 30026); E, F. Vermetus erroneous Monterosato, 1889, Mondello (Sicily), L. 21.1 x 14.3 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 21216); G, H. Vermetus gregarius Monterosato, 1878, Palermo (Sicily), L. 107.5 mm (aggregate), with original label (MCZR– M–30027); I, J. Vermetus horridus Monterosato, 1892, Palermo (Sicily) L. 64.7 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–5794); K, L. Vermetus rugulosus Monterosato, 1878, Arenella, Palermo (Sicily) L. 6.6 mm (aggregate), with original label (MCZR– M–21284); M, N. Vermetus scopulosus Monterosato, 1892, Palermo (Sicily) L. 48.2 mm, with original label (MCZR–M– 5790); O, P. Vermetus selectus Monterosato, 1878, Palermo (Sicily) L. 189 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–5778); Q, R. Vermetus serpuloides Monterosato, 1892, Acitrezza (Sicily), L. 102 mm (aggregate), with original label (MCZR–M–5801).