Species / Rostellaria Brongniartianus
- Rostellaria brongniartianus Risso, 1826
Rostellaria brongniartianus is treated as synonym of Aporrhais uttingeriana (Risso, 1826)
Original Description of Rostellaria brongniartianus by Risso, 1826, p.226:
- "592. R. Brongniartianus (n.) R. de Brongniart. R. Testa glabra, nitida; anfractubus septem, omnibus lineis longitudinalibus aequalibus aequidistantibus impressis, et linea una centrali in basilaribus tribus mamillatis, in posterioribus simplicibus."
- "Coq. lisse, luisante; à sept tours de spire imprimés de lignes égales, longitudinales, également distantes, et d'une ligne centrale; les trois tours inferieurs mamelonnés, les posterieurs simples. Long. o,o2o. Séj. Fossile à la Trinité.
Locus typicus: St. Trinité, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes Department, France
The Type material is presumably lost (fide Arnaud, 1977)
Rostellaria brongniartianus Risso, 1826, fig. 94
Comment
- In a manuscript by P.Gény (MNHN Paris: Ms 2052, pl. 1) a picture of Rostellaria brongniartii of Risso is shown, which is not identical with Risso's original drawing from 1826 as shown above. A similar shell as the above is named in the Gény manuscript as Rostellaria uttingerian. (Manganelli et al., 2008; Arnaud, 1977)
Original comment of Pacaud, 2007:
- Le catalogue de la collection d’Orbigny ne mentionne aucun spécimen pour cette espèce. Syntype(s) non retrouvé(s) dans la collection d’Orbigny. Jung (1974 : 45) considère cette espèce comme un nomen dubium.
History and Synonymy
1893
Sacco, 1893 placed Rostellaria bronginiartianus as variation of Aporrhais uttingeriana:
- Chenopus uttingerianus var. brongniartiana Risso, 1826
Specimens from institutional collections
Rostellaria pespelecani (linnaeus, 1758); La Trinité, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes Department, France; Coll. NHMW no. 1854/IV/13
Chenopus brongniarti Risso, 1826; Roussillon ?, France; Coll. NHMW no. 1856/29/51
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