Oscilla galilae, a new species of Pyramidellidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) from the Eastern Mediterranean

The finding of some specimens of a small pyramidellid along the Mediterranean coasts of Turkey, Israel and Cyprus, previously reported off the south-eastern coast of Turkey (Buzzurro & Greppi, 1996; Buzzurro et al., 2001) as Hinemoa cylindrica (de Folin, 1879), induced us to revise this identification. Hinemoa cylindrica is of Indo-Pacific origin and has been originally attributed to the genus Jaminea Brown, 1827 (not Risso, 1826). Later, it has been transferred to the genus Hinemoa Oliver, 1915 (Buzzurro et al., 2001). However, some details of its morphology do not agree with the description and figure of Jaminea cylindrica given by de Folin (1879). For a more suitable generic placement, we compared the species to the members of some closely resembling taxa in Pyramidellidae Gray, 1840 (e.g., Cingulina, A.Adams, 1860, Hinemoa Oliver, 1915, Miralda A. Adams, 1864, Odetta de Folin, 1870 and Oscilla Adams A., 1861). Its morphological characteristics have led us to assign it to the genus Oscilla as a new species.