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Massimo Cresti

  • Biodiversity Journal, 9 (4): 411-424

    Massimo Cresti & Maurizio Forli
    On some Pliocene Lucinidae J. Fleming, 1828 (Bivalvia) from Orciano Pisano (Pisa, Italy) with the proposal to establish a new species: Alucinoma (?) persquamulosa (Sacco, 1901)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2018.9.4.411.424

    ABSTRACT
    In the present paper, three species of bivalves (Mollusca Bivalvia) belonging to the Lucinidae J. Fleming, 1828 family, coming from the Pliocene lands of Orciano Pisano (Pisa, Italy) are described and discussed. They are: Myrtea spinifera (Montagu, 1803), Gonimyrtea (?) meneghinii (De Stefani et Pantanelli, 1878) and Alucinoma (?) persquamulosa (Sacco, 1901). The latter species has been described as a variety of Lucina meneghinii and, following the new findings in the surroundings of Orciano Pisano, we propose it as a valid species. Some discrepancies with the descriptions of the type species of the various genera used in the determinations, suggest the possibility of a systematic update of the italian Pliocene lucinides.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 11 (4): 0993-0999

    Agatino Reitano, Massimo Cresti & Davide Di Franco
    A new species of the Alvania pagodula group (Monterosato, 1890) from the Pliocene of Italy: A. agathae n. sp. (Gastropoda Rissoidae)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2020.11.4.993.999
    https://www.zoobank.org/References/4eb8612f-4d88-4200-be2f-e418e148694b

    ABSTRACT
    Alvania agathae n.sp. is described from the Pliocene of Italy. The new species is based on 17 fossil shells found in Pliocene layers of Sicily and Tuscany and belongs to the genus Alvania (Risso, 1826). Alvania agathae n.sp. is relatively close to A. spinosa (Monterosato, 1890), grouped within Alcidiella Cossmann, 1921, usually treated as a subgenus or synonym of Alvania. The description and the comparison with other Mediterranean similar fossil and living species are here reported. The possible phylogeny of the new, as well as related species included A. spinosa, is also discussed.