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Issue: Vol. 5432 No. 1: 27 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.1.2
Page range: 19-37
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Rissoidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Rissooidea) from taphocoenotic assemblages of the Strait of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea) with the description of two new species

Largo Giuseppe Veratti; 37/D; 00146 Roma Italy
Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR-CNR); Via P. Gobetti 101; 40219 Bologna Italy; Stazione Zoologica ‘Anton Dohrn’; Villa Comunale; 80121 Napoli Italy
Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie ‘Charles Darwin’; Sapienza Università di Roma; Viale dell’Università 32; I-00185 Roma Italy
Mollusca Gastropoda rissoidae Mediterranean Sea Alvania Benthonella Manzonia Rissoa Pusillina new species taxonomy

Abstract

Twenty-one rissoid species have been found in four bathyal samples from the Strait of Sicily, represented exclusively by empty shells. Some of these species are shallow water dwellers, associated with algal facies, others are typical of deep-sea (bathyal-abyssal). Two species are described as new (Alvania ismar n. sp. and Manzonia schmidti n. sp., both of probable Plio-Pleistocene age) and two have not been identified at the species level, due to the small number of specimens found and their poor state of conservation. Taxonomical remarks on some taxa are provided.

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