The More You Search, the More You Find: A New Mediterranean Endemism of the Genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from a Submarine Cave of the Messina Strait Area (Italy)
Three hundred years of study on the Mediterranean molluscan fauna led the scientific community to consider it as the best ever known. However, the rate at which new taxa are discovered and described every year is still remarkably high, even in key predators such as Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815. Within...
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doaj-8eceaf22c0644fc4ac768b327f344c192021-04-02T12:56:07ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122020-06-01844344310.3390/jmse8060443The More You Search, the More You Find: A New Mediterranean Endemism of the Genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from a Submarine Cave of the Messina Strait Area (Italy)Fabio Crocetta0Roland Houart1Giuseppe Bonomolo2Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Napoli, ItalyResearch associate, Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, rue Vautier, 29, 1000 Bruxelles, BelgiumVia Giuseppe Mazzini 9, I-61022 Vallefoglia, ItalyThree hundred years of study on the Mediterranean molluscan fauna led the scientific community to consider it as the best ever known. However, the rate at which new taxa are discovered and described every year is still remarkably high, even in key predators such as Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815. Within this family, the genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 comprises species widely distributed in the northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea that were already the target of a decadal nomenclatural, morphological, and molecular combined research. Notwithstanding, we hereby describe an additional ocenebrid endemism from the Mediterranean Sea, whose distribution appears to be restricted to a circalittoral submarine cave of the Messina Strait area (Italy). The new species <i>Ocenebra vazzanai</i> is compared with the recent Atlanto-Mediterranean congeneric taxa on the basis of the known type materials, and a table summarizing the main diagnostic features of the species is offered to facilitate future identifications. The high biodiversity highlighted in the genus <i>Ocenebra</i> reveals a wide adaptive radiation and suggests the necessity of further studies aiming to tackle biodiversity issues even in popular groups, such as molluscs, and in widely studied biogeographic areas, such as Italy, and the Mediterranean basin in general.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/8/6/443mussel drillsadaptive radiationbiodiversityalpha taxonomy<i>Ocenebra vazzanai</i> new species |
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Fabio Crocetta Roland Houart Giuseppe Bonomolo The More You Search, the More You Find: A New Mediterranean Endemism of the Genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from a Submarine Cave of the Messina Strait Area (Italy) Journal of Marine Science and Engineering mussel drills adaptive radiation biodiversity alpha taxonomy <i>Ocenebra vazzanai</i> new species |
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The More You Search, the More You Find: A New Mediterranean Endemism of the Genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from a Submarine Cave of the Messina Strait Area (Italy) |
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The More You Search, the More You Find: A New Mediterranean Endemism of the Genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from a Submarine Cave of the Messina Strait Area (Italy) |
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The More You Search, the More You Find: A New Mediterranean Endemism of the Genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from a Submarine Cave of the Messina Strait Area (Italy) |
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The More You Search, the More You Find: A New Mediterranean Endemism of the Genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from a Submarine Cave of the Messina Strait Area (Italy) |
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The More You Search, the More You Find: A New Mediterranean Endemism of the Genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from a Submarine Cave of the Messina Strait Area (Italy) |
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more you search, the more you find: a new mediterranean endemism of the genus <i>ocenebra</i> gray, 1847 (mollusca: gastropoda: muricidae) from a submarine cave of the messina strait area (italy) |
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Three hundred years of study on the Mediterranean molluscan fauna led the scientific community to consider it as the best ever known. However, the rate at which new taxa are discovered and described every year is still remarkably high, even in key predators such as Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815. Within this family, the genus <i>Ocenebra</i> Gray, 1847 comprises species widely distributed in the northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea that were already the target of a decadal nomenclatural, morphological, and molecular combined research. Notwithstanding, we hereby describe an additional ocenebrid endemism from the Mediterranean Sea, whose distribution appears to be restricted to a circalittoral submarine cave of the Messina Strait area (Italy). The new species <i>Ocenebra vazzanai</i> is compared with the recent Atlanto-Mediterranean congeneric taxa on the basis of the known type materials, and a table summarizing the main diagnostic features of the species is offered to facilitate future identifications. The high biodiversity highlighted in the genus <i>Ocenebra</i> reveals a wide adaptive radiation and suggests the necessity of further studies aiming to tackle biodiversity issues even in popular groups, such as molluscs, and in widely studied biogeographic areas, such as Italy, and the Mediterranean basin in general. |
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