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Najla Abushaala

  • Biodiversity Journal, 15 (2): 327-346 - MONOGRAPH

    Ignazio Sparacio, Fabio Liberto, Najla Abushaala, Maria Tavano & Roberto Poggi
    An annotated type catalogue of the land and freshwater mollusks from Tunisia and Libya in the Natural History Museum “Giacomo Doria” of Genova (Italy)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2024.15.2.327.346

    ABSTRACT
    In the present work are listed the type specimens of land and freshwater molluscs from Tunisia and Libya deposited in the Natural History Museum “Giacomo Doria” of Genova (Italy). The historical nucleus of the malacological collections of the Museum of Genova is made up of the material collected by the young Giacomo Doria. After the official creation of the Museum in 1867, the malacological collection increased considerably in number of species and importance also through the material collected in various scientific missions organized by the Museum around the world. After 1916, the director Raffaello Gestro reorganized all this material and began the cataloging and selection of the type species. Nineteen nominal species described by Arturo Issel, Laura Gambetta, Jole Bisacchi and Rolf Arthur Max Brandt have been traced in these malacological collections. The type series described (types and syntypes) but also the material coming from the description localities and collected by the author himself (sometimes referred to as “topotypes”) were examined. For each taxa, the collection data obtained from the labels, the current taxonomic classification, the photographic documentation, remarks and the malacological bibliography are provided.

  • Biodiversity Journal, 13 (3): 0729-0742

    Ignazio Sparacio, Najla Mohamed Abushaala, Abdelmuhsen Abusneina & Fabio Liberto
    Morphological and anatomical data on some populations of Helix pronuba Westerlund, 1879 (Gastropoda Helicidae) from North Africa
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2022.13.3.729.742

    ABSTRACT
    New morphological and anatomical data on some populations of Helix (Helix) pronuba Westerlund, 1879 (Gastropoda Helicidae) are provided. In particular, the populations from North Africa are examined morphologically and compared with the topotype from Crete (Greece). The genital organs of a population of Libya are also described.