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Mauro M. Brunetti

  • Biodiversity Journal, 8 (4): 871-874

    Mauro M. Brunetti
    Mactra pecchiolii Lawley, 1869 (Bivalvia Mactridae), a “forgotten pliocenic” taxon

    ABSTRACT
    A fossil bivalve belonging to the Pliocene has been recorded in southern Tuscany. Following bibliographic researches, it has been classified as a previously studied taxon that has never been cited afterwards: Mactra pecchiolii Lawley, 1869 (Bivalvia Mactridae). A lagoon environment of salt water has been speculated for this species.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 7 (3): 319-324

    Mauro M. Brunetti
    On some Pliocene Cancellaridae from the Mediterranean Basin with description of a new species

    ABSTRACT
    During the study on Pliocene Mediterranean malacofauna the author found the presence of a new species of the genus Sveltia Jousseaume, 1887 called S. confusa n. sp. The new species is present both in Zanclean sediments of Southern Spain (Guadalquivir basin and Estepona), and in Pliocenic sediments of Southern Tuscany. This species had been previously discussed and figured by various authors as Sveltia varicosa (Brocchi, 1814). During the research were also found some specimens similar to Ventrilia imbricata (Hörnes, 1856), a taxon which was already described for the Austrian Miocene. In this study the taxonomic position of V. imbricata, along with its presence in Pliocenic sediments and its relashionships with Scalptia etrusca Brunetti, Della Bella, Forli et Vecchi, 2008, are clarified.

  • 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, 15 (3): 665-669

    Mauro M. Brunetti & Giano Della Bella
    On two fossils bivalve (Mollusca Bivalvia) from Lower Piacenzian of Spain with description of a new species
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2024.15.3.665.669
    https://www.zoobank.org/83CFEFF9-4944-4AD4-8FE9-342499C743DF

    ABSTRACT
    The study of fossil molluscs from the Lower Piacenzian of Spain has allowed us to discover a new species of bivalve belonging to the family Limidae: Acesta (s.l.) plioiberica n. sp. which is here illustrated and discussed. Another taxon, found both in the Spanish and Italian Pliocene and previously described as Saxicava arctica var. crassomagna Sacco, 1901, is here considered as a valid species with the name of Hiatella crassomagna.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 15 (3): 493-495

    Mauro M. Brunetti
    On the presence of Peronaea planata afroccidentalis (Cosel, 1995) (Bivalvia Tellinidae) from Iberian Lower Pliocene Atlantic deposit
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2024.15.3.493.495

    ABSTRACT
    The study of numerous malacological material coming from the Iberian Lower Pliocene Atlantic deposit has made it possible to confirm the fossil presence of Peronaea planata afroccidentalis (Cosel, 1995) (Bivalvia Tellinidae) previously considered only a form of Peronaea planata (Linnaeus, 1758).

  • Biodiversity Journal, 14 (3): 0437-0439

    Mauro M. Brunetti
    On Archimediella dicosmema (Fontannes, 1881) (Gastropoda Turritellidae) from the Lower Pliocene of Catalonia (Spain)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2023.14.3.437.439

    ABSTRACT
    The discovery of a rare species of the family Turritellidae Lovén, 1847 (Gastropoda), described by Fontannes in 1881 and of which there are very few subsequent reports or illustrations, is reported. Due to the particular sculpture of the shell, this taxon is ascribed to the genus Archimediella Sacco, 1895.