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Maurizio Forli

  • Biodiversity Journal, 6 (1): 087-094

    Maurizio Forli, Alexander Stalennuy & Bruno Dell’Angelo
    Reports of Haliotis Linnaeus, 1758 (Mollusca Vetigastropoda) from the Middle Miocene of Ukraine

    ABSTRACT
    Two species of Haliotidae are described and illustrated from the Maksymivka quarry near Ternopil (Ukraine), a site characterized by its peculiar Middle Miocene (Badenian) coralgal facies. The first species, Haliotis volhynica Eichwald, 1829, has a wide geographical distribution that extends from the Paratethys of Central Europe to the Ukraine, and is quite common in the Maksymivka site. Another different species of Haliotis Linnaeus, 1758 was recently found at Maksymivka, only two specimens in several years of research. This species was already reported by Krach (1981) from Poland as Haliotis tuberculata tauroplanata Sacco, 1897, a species from the Burdigalian of Piedmont that differs from the Maksymivka species by several characters. We leave this rare species indeterminate at specific level because of the scarcity of material known to date.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 6 (1): 017-026

    Andrea Guerrini, Alessandro Ciampalini, Simone Da Prato, Franco Sammartino & Maurizio Forli
    Paleontologic and stratigraphic data from Quaternary deposits of Leghorn subsoil (Italy)

    ABSTRACT
    The Authors describe two malacofauna fossils attributable, on biostratigraphic and stratigraphic base, to Pleistocene and Late Pleistocene, observed by a drilling carried out in the east of the city of Leghorn, Italy. The malacological fossil association of Pleistocene was low in number of individuals but well characterized in the number of species; the one attributable to the Upper Pleistocene is related to contemporary associations already known in literature for Leghorn subsoil, and shows two species not previously reported. The malacofauna of the Lower Pleistocene is characteristic of the current coastal muddy debris; Tyrrhenian malacofauna mainly consists of allochthonous elements, from a “Posidonia meadows” and the depositional environment is attributable to the Mediterranean current seabeds. The stratigraphy of the subsoil of the area differs from that known in literature, as it shows a single level of "Panchina" that rests directly above clay sediments of the Lower Pleistocene.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 5 (1): 009-018

    Alessandro Ciampalini, Maurizio Forli, Andrea Guerrini & Franco Sammartino
    The marine fossil malacofauna in a Plio-Pleistocenic section from Vallin Buio (Livorno, Tuscany, Italy)

    ABSTRACT
    In the present paper the occurrence of marine fossil malacofauna in a Plio-Pleistocenic section from Vallin Buio (surroundings of Livorno) is described. Three different mollusc associations are present. The oldest one is typical of the Italian Lower Pliocene, the other two, are characteristic of the Upper Pleistocene fauna. Specimens, sometime poorly preserved, are not numerous for each section, but all the identified species are compatible with the respective fossil associations. The fossil malacofauna in the calcarenitic level referred to the Upper Pleistocene shows a remarkable affinity with the biotic component of the posidonietum biocenosis.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 4 (1): 183-208

    Mauro M. Brunetti & Maurizio Forli
    The genus Aporrhais Da Costa, 1778 (Gastropoda Aporrhaidae) in the Italian Plio-Pleistocene

    ABSTRACT
    The species of the genus Aporrhais Da Costa, 1778 (Gastropoda, Aporrhaidae) of the italian Plio-Pleistocene are described and illustrated. To the three species known, A. pespelecani pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758), A. uttingeriana (Risso, 1826) and A. peralata (Sacco, 1893), the new species A. etrusca n. sp., reported only for the Zanclean period of Tuscany (central Italy) and A. pliorara (Sacco, 1893), distributed from the Piacenzian to the Lower Pleistocene (Calabrian), elevated to species, are added; moreover, A. pespelecani var. crenatulina (Sacco, 1893), the most common in the italian lower-middle Pliocene, widespread from the Tortonian to the Piacenzian, is elevated to subspecies. A. serresiana (Michaud, 1827) is considered to have occurred in the Mediterranean basin only in very recent times. The examined species were compared either with extant taxa of Mediterranean (A. pespelecani pespelecani, A. serresiana) and Afro-Atlantic origin (A. pesgallinae Barnard, 1963 A. senegalensis Gray, 1838) or with species of the European Neogene: A. burdigalensis (d'Orbigny, 1852), A. meridionalis (Basterot, 1825), A. alata (Von Eichwald, 1830), A. dingdenensis Marquet, Grigis et Landau, 2002, A. scaldensis Van Regteren Altena, 1954 and A. thersites Brives, 1897.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 14 (1): 0165-0166

    Carlo Chirli & Maurizio Forli
    Synonymical note on Alvania benestarensis Chirli et Forli, 2021 (Gastropoda Rissoidae)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2023.14.1.165.166

    ABSTRACT
    After studying of new molluscan collections and of the existing bibliography it is established that Alvania benestarensis Chirli et Forli, 2021 (Gastropoda Rissoidae) is a junior synonym of Benthonellania benestarensis (Vazzana, 1996).