Diaphana quadrata Amphisphyra
- Dataset
- 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
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Cephalaspidea
- family
- Diaphanidae
- genus
- Diaphana
- species
- Diaphana quadrata
description
1874 a: 280 [X: 206] — available name
discussion
Remarks. Regarded as a synonym of Colpodaspis pusilla M. Sars, 1870, by both Lemche (1948: 40) and Oliverio & Tringali (2001: 129; 124, fig. 10, 125, figs 17 – 19). As noticed by the latter, “ Diaphana quadrata (Monterosato, 1874) ” sensu Nordsieck (1972: 25; 235, fig. 4) does not seem to belong to the present species. The drawing by Nordsieck seems to fit an undescribed species of the genus Diaphana T. Brown, 1827, figured by Oliverio (2000: 47, fig. 12) and currently in study by one of us (LPT). Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Colpodaspis pusilla M. Sars, 1870.
materials_examined
Type material. MCZR – M – 16129 — 11 sh, more or less damaged “ Amphisphyra quadrata Monts Pal. e S. Vito! ” // 1 sh + 1 frg “ S. Vito ” Type locality. Described from San Vito lo Capo and Palermo (Sicily).
Name
- Homonyms
- Diaphana quadrata Amphisphyra