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Massimo Appolloni

  • Biodiversity Journal, 8 (4): 943-946

    Carlo Smriglio, Paolo Mariottini & Massimo Appolloni
    First record of fossil Jujubinus curinii Bogi et Campani, 2006 (Gastropoda Trochidae) in north-eastern Sicily (Italy)

    ABSTRACT
    The discovery of a fossil specimen of Jujubinus curinii Bogi et Campani, 2006 (Gastropoda Trochidae) is reported from the geologic stage of “Milazziano” (Tyrrhenian, Pleistocene) located at Capo Milazzo, North-Eastern Sicily. The specimen has been found during a study on the Jujubinus Monterosato, 1884 material stored in the Monterosato’s collection at the Museo Civico di Zoologia of Rome, Italy.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 4 (2): 343-354

    Paolo Mariottini, Andrea Di Giulio, Massimo Appolloni & Carlo Smriglio
    Phenotypic diversity, taxonomic remarks and updated distribution of the Mediterranean Jujubinus baudoni (Monterosato, 1891) (Gastropoda Trochidae)

    ABSTRACT
    Jujubinus baudoni (Monterosato, 1891) shows highly diverse chromatic and morphological patterns. Based on the examination of the type material and series of specimens from private collections, and of recent findings from Sardinia, we reviewed and updated the distribution of this species, and figured the three representative shell colour morphs which are constant in local populations. A comparative SEM analysis did not outline significant differences among shells with greatly different colour patterns, thus justifying their belonging to a single specific entity. The survey of the material of J. baudoni did not show a strict correspondence between Corse and Sardinian shell colour morphs and their geographical distribution, not allowing to clearly state trends and relationships among island populations. On the contrary the colour pattern of the continental shells of J. baudoni seems to be constant and different from the ones of the island shells, indicating a well separated colour morph. This study confirmed that the distribution of J. baudoni is limited to the north-western Mediterranean Sea, with its eastern range widened to the La Maddalena Archipelago (Sardinia). The record of this species from Azores is due to a misidentification with J. pseudogravinae Nordsieck, 1973, which is also figured for comparison. A lectotype and paralectotypes of Trochus baudoni are herein designated.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 15 (1): 071-078

    Massimo Appolloni & Carlo Smriglio
    A new species of Babelomurex Coen, 1922 (Gastropoda Muricidae) for the Italian Pliocene: Babelomurex brugnonei n. sp.
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2024.15.1.71.78
    https://zoobank.org/4A7D8F79-671A-49E7-B0F7-3259C1937A7C

    ABSTRACT
    A new fossil species of Coralliophilinae Chenu, 1859 (Gastropoda Muricidae), in the genus Babelomurex Coen, 1922, is here described and illustrated as Babelomurex brugnonei n. sp., found in Altavilla Milicia, Sicilian locality known for the Pliocene-Pleistocene siliciclastic succession exposed in this geographical area. The new species is compared with Latiaxis janianus (Cocconi, 1873) and Latiaxis dellabellai Brunetti, 2004, the other two morphologically close fossil species reported in the Pliocene of the Mediterranean Basin. A taxonomic update is suggested for these fossil species of Coralliophilinae, all belonging to the genus Babelomurex.