Andrea Spinelli

• Biodiversity Journal, 16 (1): 041-046

  Andrea Spinelli, Ivan Angelo Gatì & Salvatore Giacobbe
  A new species of Steromphala J.E. Gray, 1847 (Gastropoda Trochidae) from Sicily Channel
  https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2025.16.1.41.46
  https://www.zoobank.org/0A256DC0-5012-4A5D-8E40-390A8B552D2D

  ABSTRACT
  A new species belonging to the genus Steromphala Gray, 1847 (Gastropoda Trochidae), based on shell characters is described from the Sicily Channel. Steromphala federicii n. sp. is here compared with the most closely related species showing marked sculpture, namely S. racketti (Payraudeau, 1826), and S. nivosa (A. Adams, 1853) which is endemic of the close area of Malta. The new species, exclusively found in the Skerki Bank, cannot yet be confirmed as endemic, due to the present limited knowledge about the Sicily Channel banks.

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