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Francesco Giusti

  • Biodiversity Journal, 6 (1): 079-082

    Francesco Giusti, Carlo Sbrana & Luigi Romani
    First record of Rugulina fragilis (Sars G.O., 1878) from the Mediterranean Sea (Mollusca Gastropoda Pendromidae)

    ABSTRACT
    Several shells of Rugulina fragilis (Sars G.O., 1878) (Mollusca Gastropoda Pendromidae) are reported from the Tuscan Archipelago. This is the first record of the species from the Mediterranean Sea.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 3 (1): 091-092

    Francesco Giusti & Carlo Sbrana
    Lurifax vitreus Warén & Bouchet, 2001 (Gastropoda, Orbitestellidae), a new record for deep waters of the Tuscan Archipelago (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)

    ABSTRACT
    We record a finding of one perfect adult, one young specimen, and other two no-well conserved adults of Lurifax vitreus Warén & Bouchet, 2001 (Gastropoda, Orbitestellidae) coming from deep waters of Tuscan Archipelago.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 15 (4): 917-921

    Francesco Giusti & Pasquale Micali
    Cima verae n. sp. from the Mediterranean Sea (Gastropoda Cimidae)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2024.15.4.917.921
    https://www.zoobank.org/0DD75D78-B2E7-47BA-AD5A-C1F02A6A8205

    ABSTRACT
    A new Mediterranean species of the genus Cima Chaster, 1896 (Gastropoda Cimidae) is described: Cima verae n. sp. The new species has been collected in the deep waters of Tuscan Archipelago and littoral waters at Scilla (Strait of Messina) in Italy. The new species is characterised by the apex with only weak growth lines and of ogival outline. The general shell outline is similar to C. minima (Jeffreys, 1858), a species not rare in the same shell grit, that may be easily separated for the globose apex and more convex initial whorls. The new species is also similar to Cima mingoranceae Rolán et Swinnen, 2014, described from Senegal and Mauritania, from which it mainly differs in that it lacks the particular sculpture on the apex, consisting of spiral cords that curve and become axial.