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Frank Swinnen

  • Biodiversity Journal, 9 (4): 325-332

    Carlo Smriglio, Paolo Mariottini & Frank Swinnen
    Jujubinus browningleeae n. sp. (Gastropoda Trochidae) from the Atlantic Ocean, a new member of the “smooth” Jujubinus Monterosato, 1884 complex
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2018.9.4.325.332

    ABSTRACT
    A new species of the gastropod family Trochidae Rafinesque, 1815, Jujubinus browningleeae n. sp., based on morphological characters of the shell, is here described. The new taxon is actually known only from the Gorringe Bank, located off Cape St. Vincent (Portugal, North-Eastern Atlantic). The new taxon is compared with members of the J. curinii species complex, which are morphologically the most similar congeners.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 8 (4): 907-914

    Danilo Scuderi, Frank Swinnen & Josè Templado
    A new Vermetidae from the Eastern Atlantic: Vermetus bieleri n. sp. (Gastropoda Caenogastropoda)

    ABSTRACT
    A new species of the worm-snail Vermetus Daudin, 1800, V. bieleri n. sp. (Gastropoda Caenogastropoda), is here described as new for Madeira and the Canary Islands. The species morphologically resembles the Mediterranean congener V. triquetrus Bivona, 1832, from which it is here distinguished on the basis of morphological characters of the shell, the protoconch and the external soft parts. Comparisons of the new vermetid with other similar species are hereafter reported.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 10 (4): 359-364

    Carlo Smriglio, Paolo Mariottini & Frank Swinnen
    Jujubinus silbogomerus n. sp. (Gastropoda Trochidae) from the Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2019.10.4.359.364

    ABSTRACT
    Based on shell characters, a new species of the gastropod family Trochidae, Jujubinus silbogomerus n. sp., is described from the Atlantic Ocean. The new taxon is known from the type locality only, the Canary Islands. It was compared with the most closely related species of this geographical area as well as with the Atlantic and Mediterranean Jujubinus Monterosato, 1884 showing marked sculpture. The peculiar morphology of the teleoconch microsculpture and sculpture of this new taxon allows an easy identification.