New Records of Marine Mollusca from the Culuccia Peninsula (NW Sardinia, Italy)

The aim of this work is to update the checklist of the marine malacofauna of the Culuccia Peninsula (NW Sardinia, Italy), based on research carried out over two years by SCUBA and free diving in all the main marine habitats of the peninsula. We provide here new records, all accompanied by in situ images of living animals or photographs of shells. In some cases, ecological and systematic notes are provided. With the new records of 39 species (27 gastropods and 12 bivalves), a total of 295 taxa belonging to the classes Bivalvia (84), Gastropoda (199), Polyplacophora (11), and Scaphopoda (1) have been listed from this Sardinian high-biodiversity spot. Two alien species already reported, Pinctada radiata (Leach, 1814) and Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817, can now be considered to be well established.

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  2025

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  2025-11-22

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  DOI 10.3390/d17120809
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