Morena Tisselli

• Biodiversity Journal, 13 (2): 0427-0434

  Danilo Scuderi, Morena Tisselli & Pasquale Micali
  Melanella cyclopia n. sp. (Gastropoda Eulimidae) from Eastern Sicily
  https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2022.13.2.427.434

  ABSTRACT
  Melanella cyclopia n. sp. (Gastropoda Eulimidae) is described based on tens of shells found in shell grit taken in various localities located in a short length of Northern coast of Catania (Eastern Sicily, Ionian Sea), between 20 and 45 m depth. Findings include a liven taken specimen, whose soft parts have been observed and drawn. The new species is characterized by a well-rounded, swollen, solid shell similar to some Mediterranean congeners, but peculiar on account of some protoconch and shell details and a different external morphology of the soft parts. Differences from similar species from Eastern Atlantic, Red Sea, as well as Indo-Pacific are hereafter discussed.

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