Alvania testae Aradas & Maggiore 1844
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Alvania testae (Aradas & Maggiore, 1844)
Fig. 13 j–l
Rissoa testae Aradas & Maggiore, 1844 (p. 135).
Rissoa abyssicola Forbes in Forbes & Hanley, 1850 (p. 86, pl. 78, figs. 1–2; pl. J, fig. 3). Alvania (Actonia) testae Aradas sp.— Seguenza 1903 (p. 54).
Turbona (Actonia) testae (Aradas & Maggiore, 1844) — Nordsieck 1972 (p. 186, pl. 7, fig. 21). Turbona (Actonia) abyssicola (Forbes, 1853) — Nordsieck 1972 (p. 187, pl. 8, fig. 3). Alvania testae (Aradas e Maggiore)— Di Geronimo & Panetta 1973 (p. 77).
Alvania abyssicola (Forbes, 1850) — Fretter & Graham 1978 (p. 188, figs. 162–164); Poppe & Goto 1991 (p. 100, pl. 12, fig. 13).
Alvania testae (Aradas & Maggiore, 1844) —Barash & Danin 1982 (p. 53); Warén 1996 (p. 222, fig. 18E); Repetto et al. 2005 (p. 119, mid left fig.).
Alvania (Alvania) testae (Aradas and Maggiore) — Ponder 1984 (p. 37, figs. 88 A–B).
Alvania testae (Aradas and Maggiore, 1843) — Poppe & Goto 1991 (p. 102, pl. 12, fig. 18).
Alvania (Alvania) testae (Aradas & Maggiore, 1844) — Cossignani et al. 1992 (fig. 73).
Alvania testae (Aradas and Maggiore, 1844) — Oliverio et al. 1993 (p. 251, pl. 1, figs. 1–3).
Alvania testae (Aradas y Maggiore, 1843)— Giribet & Peñas 1997 (p. 62, figs. 7, 9, 10).
Diagnostic characters. Conical, slightly cyrtoconoid shell; ovate aperture; moderately thick labial varix; imperforated base; commarginal ribs and superimposed spiral cordlets forming a squarish reticulated pattern; small nodules at the intersections of ribs and spirals. Protoconch: conical; 2.5 whorls; diameter about 290 µm (protoconch I: 130 µm); height about 230 µm; first whorl (protoconch I) with spiral lines forming a polygonal pattern adapically; subsequent whorls (protoconch II) with sparse granules adapically, widely spaced oblique bars medially and irregular spiral threads abapically; transition to the teleoconch marked by a sinuous lip.
Remarks. Alvania abyssicola (Forbes, 1850) is currently regarded as a junior synonym (CLEMAM 2016; WoRMS 2016). The closely related A. subsoluta (Aradas, 1847) differs in having a larger (about 400 µm) and differently scupltured protoconch of the lecitotrophic type (cf. Oliverio et al. 1993).
Occurrence. Box-corer sample BC72 (5 specimens); cores BC05 (3), BC21 (2), BC72 (1). Maximum height: 2.5 mm.
Distribution and habitat. The species ranges from northern Norway to Morocco (to 31° N) and the Mediterranean, as far East as Israel; it dwells on mud, sand, clay and coral rubble in the 15–1085 m bathymetric interval, occasionally deeper (Panetta 1971; Fretter & Graham 1978; Barash & Danin 1982; Warén 1996; Giribet & Peñas 1997; Petersen 2004). It is present in the VP biocoenosis (Di Geronimo et al. 1982; Della Bella & Tabanelli 2004).
Fossil record. Pliocene of Northern Italy (Della Bella & Tabanelli 2004; Ceregato et al. 2007; Tabanelli 2008); Pliocene and Pleistocene of Sicily (Seguenza 1903).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rissoidae
- Genus
- Alvania
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Aradas & Maggiore
- Species
- testae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alvania testae Aradas, 1844 sec. Negri & Corselli, 2016
References
- Aradas, A. & Maggiore, G. (1844) Catalogo ragionato delle conchiglie viventi e fossili di Sicilia. Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali, 20, 101 - 142, 343 - 360.
- Forbes, E. & Hanley, S. C. (1850) A history of British Mollusca and their shells. Vol. 3. Van Voorst, London, 320 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 12672
- Seguenza, L. (1903) Rissoidi neogenici della Provincia di Messina. Paleontographia Italica, 9, 35 - 60.
- Nordsieck, F. (1972) Die europaischen Meeresschnecken (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae; Rissoacea) vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, XIII + 327 pp.
- Di Geronimo, I. & Panetta, P. (1973) La Malacofauna Batiale del Golfo di Taranto. Conchiglie, 9 (5 - 6), 69 - 121.
- Fretter, V. & Graham, A. (1978) The prosobranch molluscs of Britain and Denmark. Part 4 - Marine Rissoacea. The Journal of Molluscan Studies, supplement 6, 153 - 241.
- Poppe, G. T. & Goto, Y. (1991) European Seashells. Volume I. (Polyplacophora, Caudofoveata, Solenogastra, Gastropoda). Verlag Christa Hemmen, Wiesbaden, 352 pp.
- Waren, A. (1996) New and little known Mollusca from Iceland and Scandinavia. Part 3. Sarsia, 81, 197 - 245.
- Repetto, G., Orlando, F. & Arduino, G. (2005) Conchiglie del Mediterraneo: 1770 specie illustrate con distribuzione e frequenza. Amici del Museo " Federico Eusebio ", Alba, 392 pp.
- Ponder, W. F. (1984) A review of the Genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea). Records of the Australian Museum, suppl. 4, 1 - 221.
- Cossignani, T., Cossignani, V., Di Nisio, A. & Passamonti, M. (1992) Atlante delle conchiglie del medio Adriatico. L'Informatore Piceno Editore, Ancona, 120 pp.
- Oliverio, M., Amati, B. & Nofroni, I. (1993) Revision of the Alvania testae group of species. Lavori Societa Italiana di Malacologia, 24, 249 - 259.
- Giribet, G. & Penas, A. (1997) Fauna malacologica del litoral del Garraf (NE de la Peninsula Iberica). Iberus, 15 (1), 41 - 93.
- Panetta, P. (1971) Molluschi del Golfo di Taranto raccolti durante le crociere dell' " Albatros ". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale " Giacomo Doria ", 78, 149 - 180.
- Petersen, K. S. (2004) Late Quaternary environmental changes recorded in the Danish marine molluscan faunas. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin, 3, 1 - 268.
- Di Geronimo, I., Li Gioi, R. & Sciacca, V. (1982) La fauna Pleistocenica dell'abbeveratoio Conzo (Grammichele, Catania). Geologica Romana, 21, 577 - 601.
- Della Bella, G. & Tabanelli, C. (2004) Revisione della malacofauna pliocenica di Rio Albonello (Brisighella, Ravenna) III. Testyleda annaritae n. sp. (Bivalvia Paleotaxodonta Nuculanidae). Quaderno di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna, 19, 7 - 16.
- Ceregato, A., Raffi, S. & Scarponi, D. (2007) The circalittoral / bathyal paleocommunities in the Middle Pliocene of Northern Italy: The case of the Korobkovia oblonga - Jupiteria concava paleocommunity type. Geobios, 40, 555 - 572. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. geobios. 2006.08.004
- Tabanelli, C. (2008) Associazioni di paleocomunita batiali a molluschi bentonici nel Pliocene della Romagna. Quaderno di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna, 26, 1 - 80.