Publisher : Biodiversity Journal
Place of publication :
Publication year : 2014
Thematic : Species
Language : English
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Alvania maximilicutiani n. sp. is here described and figured as a new Mediterranean species
from the E-Sicily. The most similar species in morphological characters are A. clathrella
(Seguenza L., 1903), A. dalmatica Buzzurro et Prkić, 2007, A. dianiensis Oliverio, 1988, A.
dictyophora (Philippi, 1844), A. hallgassi Amati et Oliverio, 1985. All these species and other
similar Mediterranean and not Mediterranean congeners are here compared to the new species,
which differs by the very minute dimensions, being one of the smaller Alvania ever described,
the protoconch morphology and the colour pattern of the external soft parts. The Macaronesian
A. piersmai Moolenbeek et Hoenselaar, 1989, A. poucheti Dautzenberg, 1889, A. spreta
(Watson,1873) and other congeners are furthermore compared to A. maximilicutiani n.sp. The
new species could also resemble a dwarf form of A. lanciae, but to a more deepened exam of
the shell the latter species appears morphologically very different in both protoconch and
teleoconch characters. The type material of A. maximilicutiani n.sp. was collected in very shallow
waters in the rocky shores of the small village S. Giovanni Li Cuti (Catania, Italy).
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