New records of Spiricella unguiculus Rang, 1827 (Gastropoda Euthyneura: Umbraculidae)

BASTERIA,

58:

225-228,

1994

New records of

Spiricella unguiculus

(Gastropoda Euthyneura:

Geuze

G.J. Amstelstraat

69,

4388 RK

&

Watertoren

The

rare

West

Key

marine

Portugal,

D.F.

28, 4336

The

Netherlands

Hoeksema

KC

The

Middelburg,

1827 is

Netherlands

reported

from

South

Martinhal,

Serini, West Mauritania.

Gastropoda, Euthyneura,

words:

Oost-Souburg,

gastropod Spiricella unguiculus Rang,

and

1827

Rang,

Umbraculidae)

Umbraculidae,

Spiricella unguiculus,

distribution,

Portugal,

Mauritania.

and Cossmann

Rang (1827) of

respectively SW.

France.

19a-d) lands

Hoeksema &

rediscovered the

(one

shell),

(one shell).

unguiculus

in the

m), Italy,

at

Apparently of S.

finds

of this

Martinhal,

so

far

Janssen, from

deposits

SW.

Algarve,

Moolenbeek,

specimen

from

Serini,

(figs.

addition

to

the

absence of

1990:

Giannutri

to

Rang (1827),

20).

Within the

width

2.5

x

1.4

the

e.g.

shell

fossil

S.

first two

1.5

able

to

mm

shells

and

shell

2.0

the

we

&Janssen (1984)

and

a

Mr. R.G.

relatively grit

1985). from

specimen

antero-posterior

consider

but further research is

at

width 0.8

mm,

us

Recent

recovered.

Thereupon

showed

(30

sand

which had been found in shell

mm,

March

along

found

four Recent new

could be

length

protoconch.

S.

of S.

(54 m), Italy.

two

author collected fresh

Lagos,

of Livorno

only

report

(ZMA), kindly

the

and

fig.

E. Nether-

Tringali (1990)

Baratti,

fragments,

19

specimen

Serini shows other

the small diameter of the nucleus

1-2). Provisionally

unguiculus

and

of

lines. This shell looks much like the

figs.

axis

specimen

the

shells

(about

0.07

(see fig. 3)

and

from Giannutri from

Serini and

required.

Janssen (1984)

gave

a

detailed

descrip-

and all the authors mentioned, except Cossmann, gave

shell from Giannutri has been

nothing

(1987) bay

are

had lost its

length/width ratio,

part of

Hoeksema

The

Still

the

which

T. Piersma,

(leg.

unguiculus,

unguiculus,

tion of the shell of S.

figures.

S.

central

16,

be S.

mm,

fossil we

Museum Amsterdam

small

radiating

(Tringali,

3.5

specimen

Winterswijk-Miste,

a

Basin,

409, pi.

the island of Giannutri

near

some

1993

from

1-3), measuring

typical

the elevated

(1993:

length

W. Mauritania

differences from

May

Portugal,

the smallest

Zoologisch

short

In

1984: 386,

another find of

been recorded. Now

gastropod.

rare

and

three fossil shells,

have

fragments

some

from the beach between Alvor and

grit

reported

Djerba, Tunisia,

only

unguiculus

Unfortunately

clear

also

Basin. Carrozza & Rocchini

Aquitaine

Dimensions of the shells:

the

see

in Miocene

(1987)

shell and

a

1827, in Miocene deposits, Aquitaine

(1984;

Recent shell

Dekker

the island of

shells

mm),

184) reported finding

Recent shells in the Mediterranean, viz. in the

single

In

Janssen

species

and in

Portugal

mm.

(1899:

Spiricella unguiculus Rang,

figured again by Angioy

&

Nicolay

is known about the soft parts.

Lusitanian

province

S.

unguiculus

appears

to

have

a

wide distribution. A

226

Figs.

Vol.

BASTERIA,

1-3.

ventral

recent

We

Messrs.

on

from

specimen

Keukelaar, the first author

grit

to

us

Hoenselaar

Serini. the

The

shells

Scale

1

Martinhal,

Berge, Wilhelminadorp,

(ZMA)

for

1994

5-6,

1, dorsal view; 2, mm.

while

some

the

who

partici-

of the shells, and

one

respectively

in

kept

are

No.

(1990).

from Martinhal and isolated

H.J.

and

led

(1989)

Museum Amsterdam.

of the ventral side.

part

Moolenbeek & Piersma

T. Keukelaar-van den

of the shell

Moolenbeek and

the

Zoölogisch

view, showing

& Hoenselaar

given by

Mrs.

to

sorting

R.G.

drawing

Serini is

grateful

are

in the

left side

view; 3, approximate

of Hoenselaar

paper

information

pated

1827. Serini, W. Mauritania;

Spiricella unguiculus Rang,

58,

showing

collections

to

and

of Mrs.

ZMA.

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Vol.

58,

No.

5-6,

1994

Samenvatting

Van de zeldzame mariene In

gruis

verzameld

tweede vondst,

van

bij

gastropode Spiricella unguiculus Rang,

Martinhal,

één

recent

Algarve, ZW.-Portugal,

schelpje,

is

van

Serini,

werd

1827

een

worden

tweetal

W.-Mauretanië.

twee

recente

nieuwe vondsten

gemeld.

schelpjes aangetroffen.

De