Stefano Chiarelli

• Biodiversity Journal, 8 (3): 839-850

  Bruno Amati & Stefano Chiarelli
  Description of Alvania oetyliaca n. sp. from the Mediterranean Sea (Mollusca Gastropoda Rissoidae)

  ABSTRACT
  A new Mediterranean species of the genus Alvania Risso, 1826 (Rissooidea Rissoidae) is described: Alvania oetyliaca n. sp. All known specimens come from the type locality: Itilo Bay, Peloponnese, Greece. It is compared with the most similar congeners from the Mediterranean Sea: A. subcrenulata (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg et Dollfus, 1884), A. amatii Oliverio, 1986, A. nestaresi Oliverio et Amati, 1990, A. balearica Oliver et Templado, 2009, A. aliceae Amati, 2014, A. hirta Monterosato, 1884 and A. cancellata (Da Costa, 1778). It is also compared with Alvania sleursi (Amati, 1987) from the Atlantic and A. laurae Brunetti et Vecchi, 2012 from the Pleistocene of Italy.

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