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A neotype for Transovula schefferi de Gregorio, 1880 is designated. A modern description of the genus Transovula de Gregorio, 1880 and of T. schefferi is presented. The genus Oxycypraea F. A. Schilder, 1927 differs from Transovula and the recently introduced genus Borysteniella Pacaud, 2018 is identified as a junior synonym. 9 p…

Cuspivolva paulwatsoni n. sp. from Sri Lanka, Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines is distinguished from Cuspivolva tigris (Yamamoto, 1971) by its coloration, mainly by two darker wavy lines dorsally, and from Cuspivolva draperi Azuma & Cate in Cate, 1973 by having coarser mid-dorsal striae and a less keeled shell. The animals of…

A new species of Triviidae from the Caloosahatchee Beds, Late Pliocene of Florida in the genus Niveria is described as Niveria incomparabilis n. sp. The new taxon is discussed with similar apparent species. Niveria pulloidea known before by the Pleistocene holotype only was recently rediscovered as a living fossil. 9 pp., 1 fig.…

A new species of the gastropod family Ovulidae Fleming, 1828 is described from Singapore. It is asigned to the genus Cuspivolva C. N. Cate, 1973. Type species of the genus is Crenavolva (Cuspivolva) cuspis C. N. Cate, 1973. More than two dozen shells of Cuspivolva singaporica n. sp. are consistently distinguished from those of i…

Two species of the gastropod family Ovulidae Fleming, 1828 are newly described from the Strait of Gibraltar off Morocco respectively redescribed from Japan. The new species from Morocco is assigned to the genus Simnia Risso, 1826. Type species of the genus is Simnia nicaeensis Risso, 1826. Sux shells of Simnia jacintoi n. sp. ar…

A new deep-water species of the genus Dentiovula Habe, 1961 in the gastropod family Ovulidae Fleming, 1828 is described from Madagascar. The specimens were collected by the ATIMO-VATAE-Expedition of the MNHN during May and June 2010. One male and one female shell of Dentiovula nix n. sp. are consistently distinguished from those…

The validity of the genus Neosimnia P. Fischer, 1884 is confirmed. The type species of the genus Simnia Risso, 1826, Simnia nicaeensis Risso, 1826, is not a juvenile shell of Bulla spelta Linnaeus, 1758. Several evidences are presented. The species of Seosimnia and Simnia are distinguished by their shell morphology and cannot be…

A new species of the gastropod family Ovulidae Fleming, 1828 is described from the Philippines. It is assigned to the genus Cuspivolva C. N. Cate, 1973. Type species of the genus is Cuspivolva cuspis (C. N. Cate, 1973). The wrongly interpreted Ovulum formosum is assigned herein to the genus Primovula Thiele, 1925 and Delonovolva…

The Eratoidae of the Chattian, Late Oligocene from Abbesse, SW France, are revised. A lectotype of Erato prolaevis Sacco, 1894 and a neotype of Erato rhenana F. A. Schilder, 1933 are designated. Three new species and one new genus are described and briefly compared with related taxa. New taxa: Erato lozoueti n. sp., Erato precur…

A new species of the gastropod family Ovulidae Fleming, 1828 is described from the Philippines. It is assigned to the genus Aclyvolva C. N. Cate, 1973. Type species of the genus is Ovulum lanceolatum G. B. Sowerby II, 1848. More than two dozen shells of Aclyvolva rubracarinata n. sp. are consistently distinguished from those of…

Meyer (2004) has confirmed that the group of the SE African fultoni-species complex and the Oman Cypraea teulerei Cazenavette 1846 - usually assigned to the genus Barycypraea - are not related with the Caribbean mus-species complex. They are related to the south and west Australian Zoila Jousseaume 1884. The use of Barycypraea f…

A new species of fossil cowrie, Austrocypraea amae sp. nov., hitherto misldentIhed, is described from the Roe Calcarenite of the Eucla Basin. The new species is intermediate in morphology between the Miocene A. contusa (McCoy, 1877) and the extant A. reevei (Sowerby, 1832). It provides the first confirmation from the Pliocene fo…