Heterobranchia Burmeister, 1837 - Order: Runcinida

Family: Runcinidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Runcina adriatica Thompson, 1980

Very common species in Salento marine areas in all season of the year. It has a good variability, really small size, rarely exceed 2 mm in lenght. We have found specimens up to 36m depth.

Specie comune nel Salento in tutte le stagioni dell'anno. Presenta una discreta variabilità, di dimensioni davvero piccole, raramente supera i 2 mm di lunghezza. Abbiamo trovato esemplari fino a 36m di profondità.

 

 
 

Bibliography

Micaroni et altri, 2018 Project “Biodiversity MARE Tricase”: a biodiversity inventory of the coastal area of Tricase (Ionian Sea, Italy) – Mollusca: Heterobranchia. The European Zoological Journal, 2018, 180–193

Furfaro G., Vitale F., Licchelli C. e Mariottini P. 2020 Two Seas for One Great Diversity: Checklist of the Marine Heterobranchia (Mollusca; Gastropoda) from the Salento Peninsula (South-East Italy) Diversity 2020, 12, 171; doi:10.3390/d12050171

Araujo A.K., Pola M., Malaquias M. A. E., Ballestreros M., Vitale F. & Cervera J. L., 2021. Molecular phylogeny of European Runcinida (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia): the discover of an unexpected pool of complex species, with special reference to the case of Runcina coronate. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021, XX, 1–28