Brochina decurtata, , Brochina

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 : 48

decurtata, Brochina [ Caecum auriculatum de Folin, 1868 ] ( Figures 17E, F )

1884f: 23 [XXXg: 637]—available name

Type material. MCZR –M–21441/L —1 sh (Lectotype) “C. decurtatum, Monts =? C. auriculatum Monts ? Nel Porto di Palermo! Anche d’Algeria!”, designated by Pizzini et al. (1995)

MCZR –M–21441/P— 1 sh (Paralectotype) “C. decurtatum, Monts =? C. auriculatum Monts ? Nel Porto di Palermo! Anche d’ Algeria!”.

Type locality. Palermo (Sicily). Described also from Magnisi (Sicily) and Algiers ( Algeria).

Remarks. Pizzini et al. (1995) have shown that it represents a form of C. auriculatum , with a precocious labial varix. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Caecum auriculatum de Folin, 1868 .

Figures

FIGURE 17. A, B. Dolium crosseanum Monterosato, 1869, Palermo (Sicily), H. 79.8 mm, holotype (Coen coll. ex Monterosato coll., HUJ. 21386), with original labels and drawings; C, D. Dolium crosseanum sensu Autores = Eudolium bairdii (Verrill & S. Smith [in Verrill], 1881), Rabat (Morocco), H. 69 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–30036); E, F. Brochina decurtata Monterosato, 1884, lectotype, Palermo (Sicily), H. 1.5 mm, with original label (MCZR–M–21441); G–I. Brochina incompta Monterosato, 1884, Lacroma Island (Croatia), H. 1.55 mm and 1.45 mm (ex Brusina coll.), with original labels (MCZR–M–21442); J, K. Caecum semitrachea Monterosato, 1884 ex Brusina ms., Ulbo Island (Croatia), H. 1.9 mm (ex Brusina coll.), with original labels (MCZR–M–21467); L, M. Caecum semitrachea Monterosato, 1884 ex Brusina ms., Mondello (Sicily), H. 2.15 mm and H. 2.25 mm (= Caecum orientale de Folin, 1868) [Mo (Mondello) written on the cork cap] (MCZR–M–21467); N, O. Truncatella microlena Monterosato, 1878 ex Bourguignat ms., Algiers (Algeria), H. 3.85 mm, with original labels (MCZR–M–22933).