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A new species of Acicula Hartmann, 1821 (Gastropoda Architaenioglossa Aciculidae) from western Sicily (Italy)
Reitano, A.; Viviano, R.; Sparacio, I.; De Mattia, W. (2025). A new species of Acicula Hartmann, 1821 (Gastropoda Architaenioglossa Aciculidae) from western Sicily (Italy). Biodiversity Journal 16(1): 137-147. https://dx.doi.org/10.31396/biodiv.jour.2025.16.1.137.147
In: Biodiversity Journal. Edizioni Danaus: Palermo. ISSN 2039-0394, more
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Keywords
    Classification > Taxonomy
    Geography > Biogeography
Author keywords
    biodiversity hot spot
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  • Reitano, A.
  • Viviano, R.
  • Sparacio, I.
  • De Mattia, W.
Abstract
    Malacological surveys in the limestone massifs west of Palermo (Carini, North-western Sicily,
    Italy), revealed the presence of a new species of Aciculidae: Acicula occidentalis n. sp. (Ga-
    stropoda Architaenioglossa Aciculidae). Diagnostic traits are: the high number of axial irre-
    gularly distributed grooves, the sub-rectangular to pyriform aperture and the larger size
    compared to other Acicula taxa known for Sicily. Acicula occidentalis n. sp. seems to be re-
    stricted to the mountains west of Palermo, until now known only to the eastern slopes of Mon-
    tagna Longa (Carini).
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