Setia limpida, , Setia

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 : 44-45

limpida, Setia [ Setia limpida Monterosato, 1884 ] ( Figures 15D–H )

1884e: 279 [XXXf: 632]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–22352 —5 sh “ Alger (Joly)!”// 7 sh “Marseille (Sollier)” Label in the box reading: “ Setia limpida ined. Monts Alger (Joly)”

Type locality. Described from Algiers ( Algeria), coasts of Provence ( France) and Ognina (Sicily).

Remarks. Currently considered as nomen dubium (MolluscaBase, 2018). The type material clearly belongs to Setia kuiperi ( Verduin, 1984) [new synonymy]. We disagree with Villari & Scuderi (2017: 195) who synonymyzed S. kuiperi with S. sciutiana , the types of the two taxa clearly addressing to distinct species (see also Gaglini 1994). Unfortunately, at least Locard & Caziot (1901: 63) and Pallary (1900: 326) used Setia limpida after 1899 as the valid name for a species, making impossible the meeting of the first of two conditions for a name to be defined nomen oblitum ( ICZN, 1999: art. 23.9.1.1, “the senior synonym …has not been used as a valid name”), and there are not 25 instances of use of S. kuiperi by 10 different authors to protect it (second condition, ICZN, 1999: art. 23.9.1.2).

Figures

FIGURE 15. A–C. Apicularia lia Monterosato, 1872 ex Benoit ms., Messina (Sicily), H. 3.35 mm and H. 3.45 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–30014); D, E. Setia limpida Monterosato, 1884, Algiers (Algeria), H. 1.85 mm (ex Joly coll.), with original label (MCZR–M–22352); F–H. Setia limpida Monterosato, 1884, Marseille (France), H. 1.67 mm and H. 1.7 mm (ex Sollier coll.), with original label (MCZR–M–22352); I–K. Setia macilenta Monterosato, 1880, Palermo (Sicily), H. 1.4 mm and 1.1 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–22346); L, M. Cingula maculata Monterosato, 1869. Trapani (Sicily), H. 2.1 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–22251); N, O. Barleeia majuscula Monterosato, 1884, Lampedusa Is., H. 4.35 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–22309); P, Q. Barleeia minuscula Monterosato, 1889, Casablanca (Morocco), H. 2.8 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–22287); R, S. Sabanea munda Monterosato, 1884, Sfax (Tunisia), H. 4.5 mm (ex Pallary coll.), with original labels (MCZR–M–30015); T, U. Zippora paradoxa Monterosato, 1884, Sfax (Tunisia), H. 7.25 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–30016); V, W. Sabanea prismatica Monterosato, 1890, Palermo (Sicily), H. 2.15 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–30017).