Acicularia lubrica Acicularia
- 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
- Littorinimorpha
- family
- Eulimidae
- genus
- Acicularia
- species
- Acicularia lubrica
description
1878 c: 96 — XIX: 410 — as Acicularia intermedia var. solidula — nomen nudum 1884 h: 103 [XXXI: 759] — as Acicularia intermedia var. solidula — not available (infrasubspecific) 1890 b: 159 [XXXVIIIb: 907] — available name
discussion
Remarks. Monterosato (1890 b: 159) deemed Jeffreys’ (1867: 203; 1869: 214; pl. 77, fig. 4) interpretation of Eulima intermedia Cantraine, 1835, as not corresponding to Cantraine’s actual species [= Melanella polita (Linnaeus, 1758)]. He had previously described this form as Acicularia intermedia var. “ solidula ” (1884 h: 103; nomen nudum in 1878 c: 96). The name Eulima solidula, however, may fall in homonymy with Eulima solidula A. Adams & Reeve, 1850, and it may therefore be argued that Monterosato (1890 b: 159) preferred to introduce by a description a different name, Acicularia lubrica for Eulima intermedia Cantraine sensu Jeffreys. This is a well – known species of the genus Melanella Bowdich, 1822, parasitic on holothurians (Bouchet & Warén, 1986: 352). It is noteworthy that in the type material and additional (non-type) samples in the collection the typical spiral microsculpture, assumed to be diagnostic of M. lubrica as currently conceived (e. g. Bouchet & Warén, 1986: 362, figs 742,743; Gofas et al., 2011: 228), is rather variable in presence / absence and strength. Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as Melanella lubrica (Monterosato, 1890).
materials_examined
Type material. MCZR – M – 30021 — 1 sh “ Acicularia lubrica Monts = intermedia auct. typ. England! ”. MCZR – M – 30052 — 9 sh + 2 frg “ Palermo ” // 1 sh “ Eulima lubrica Monts acic. fondi coral. Palermo ” (unknown handwriting) // 3 sh “ Eulime rade de Morlaix 20 brasses beaucoup plus rare que Eul. Polita ” (A. Bavay’s handwriting?) // 2 sh “ Eulima di Napoli !! vicina alla polita. La stessa foss. a Ficarazzi !! ” // 1 sh “ Eulima intermedia Cant. 1 expl Bergen ” (unknown handwriting) // 2 sh “ Eulima intermedia Cantraine England ”. Type locality. “ Numerous localities ” in Mediterranean and Atlantic.
Name
- Homonyms
- Acicularia lubrica Acicularia