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| Leufroyia leufroyi (Michaud, 1828) in Giannuzzi-Savelli, Pusateri, Prkić, ... et Oliverio, 2020. Photos: Dominique Horst. |
Abstract
The four recent species of the genus Leufroyia Monterosato, 1884 are revised based on an integrative taxonomy approach: L. leufroyi (Michaud, 1828), L. concinna (Scacchi, 1836), L. erronea Monterosato, 1884 and L. villaria (Pusateri & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 2008).
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| Underwater photographs of three living animals of Leufroyia leufroyi (Michaud, 1828). A-C, France, Cap d’Antibes, 13-17 m. Photos: Dominique Horst. |
Family RAPHITOMIDAE Bellardi, 1875
Genus Leufroyia Monterosato, 1884
TYPE SPECIES. — Pleurotoma leufroyi Michaud, 1828,
by subsequent designation (Crosse 1885).
DISTRIBUTION. — Stratigraphic distribution: the genus appears in the Middle Miocene with records from the Langhian of the Loire Basin (France) (Peyrot 1938; Glibert 1954). Th en it is known from the Langhian-Serravallian of the Paratethys, with records from the Vienna Basin, Austria (Hörnes 1854), Poland (Bałuk 2003), Ukraine (Friedberg 1912), the Karaman Basin (Serravallian Proto-Mediterranean), Turkey (Landau et al. 2003). In the Late Miocene it has been revised in the Tortonian of the nothwestern France (Landau et al. 2020), and it is known from the Messinian of the Loire Basin (France) (Brébion 1964). Th en, it is continuously present throughout the Pliocene (e.g. Sacco 1904; Cipolla 1914), and the Pleistocene (e.g. Cerulli-Irelli 1910). Based on the current knowledge, the extant species of the genus are restricted to the North-East Atlantic, from the North Sea (Norway) south to Angola, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Leufroyia leufroyi (Michaud, 1828)
Leufroyia concinna (Scacchi, 1836)
Leufroyia erronea Monterosato, 1884
Leufroya villaria (Pusateri & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 2008)
Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli, Francesco Pusateri, Jakov Prkić, Stefano Bartolini, Valeria Russini, Giulia Fassio and Marco Oliverio. 2020. Revision of Mediterranean and NE Atlantic Raphitomidae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) 8: The Genus Leufroyia Monterosato, 1884. Zoosystema. 42(22); 433-473. DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a22
