Eulima beryllina Eulima

beryllina, Eulima [Crinophtheiros comatulicola (Graff, 1875)] (Figures 18C, D)

1878a: 154 [XX: 444]—available name

Type material. MCZR–M–23615 —1 sh “ E. beryllina Monts. Jour. Conchyl. 1878 —Palermo!”

Other material. In the same lot: 1 sh (neotype of Stylina comatulicola Graff, 1875) designated by Bouchet & Warén (1986), “ E. comatulicola Graff in 3. V. Zool. XXV 1875, p. Napoli Stylina = E. beryllina, Monts. Jour. Conchyl. 1878, p. 102” (recto), “Non è un sp. di Stylina (= Stylifer). Avuto dall’autore. Si xxxxx [unreadable] ….”(verso), “ Stylina comatulicula Graff, 3. J. Wiss. Zool. XXV Neapel. 1875.” Graff’s handwriting.

Type locality. Described from Palermo (Sicily).

Remarks. Described with the usual conciseness. Later on, Monterosato (1890 b: 160) himself recognized E. beryllina as a junior synonym of Stylina comatulicola Graff, 1875, the neotype of which was designated on a shell in the Monterosato coll. (Bouchet & Warén, 1986: 397, figs 946, 947). S. comatulicola is the type species of Crinophtheiros Bouchet & Warén, 1986, by original designation. The description is in a work based on malacological samples from Palermo. It was only later that specimens from Algiers (Monterosato, 1878c: 95) and Viareggio and Naples (Monterosato, 1884h: 102) were added. Therefore, the specimen from Naples (neotype of S. comatulicola Graff), as well as additional material from Viareggio in the Monterosato collection is not part of the type material. This makes Stylina comatulicola Graff, 1875 and S. beryllina Monterosato, 1878 subjective synonyms (not objective ones). Recorded by MolluscaBase (2018) as a synonym of Crinophtheiros comatulicola (Graff, 1875).