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Biologia Serbica

2013, Vol. 35 No. 1-2 76-81

Short communication

First record of Cabestana cutacea (Linnaeus, 1767)
(Gastropoda; Ranellidae) found on the coast of Montenegro:
notes about the range of the species

Mauro Doneddu1, Egidio Trainito2 and Vesna Mačić3*

1 Via Palau, 5 Tempio Pausania (OT) Italy
2Villaggio I Fari, Porto San Paolo (OT) Italy
3 Institute of marine biology Kotor, Montenegro
Recieved for Review: 18 July 2013 / Accepted: 27 February 2014.

Summary. We report the finding of two empty shells of the Ranellidae species Cabestana cutacea (Linnaeus, 1767)
on the coast of Čanj, Montenegro. Although we cannot exclude that this may be the result of inadvertent human
transport, these findings are of interest because this species has not been recently reported in the Adriatic Sea.
Keywords: Cabestana cutacea; Montenegro; south-east Adriatic Sea.

INTRODUCTION and Ligurian Sea, coast of Sardinia and Sicily), followed by
Cabestana cutacea (Linnaeus 1767) is a Ranellidae spe- the coast of France and northern Spain. In addition, the first
author of the present work has personally found this species
cies wide-spread in the Western Mediterranean (Ghisotti in various localities in northern and eastern Sardinia–Italy
and Melone, 1968; Settepassi 1970; Saunders 1980) and (Stintino, Santa Teresa, Cala Liberotto), and these data are
along the Atlantic coasts of Africa and Europe, from Senegal presented in Fig. 1. as “Doneddu-personal observations”.
north to the Channel Islands (Jeffreys 1863; Fischer 1865;
Locard 1886; Nobre 1938; Saunders 1980; Fretter and Gra- Despite its spread and relative abundance in the western
ham 1981; Rolan Mosquera 1983; Trigo and Otero Schmitt Mediterranean, C. cutacea has only very rarely been reported
1987; Ruscoe 2007). However, the most northern findings in the central and eastern Mediterranean. There are two re-
are probably attributable to occasional settlements of veliger ports from the Ionian Sea: Taranto–Puglia, Italy (Settepassi
in particularly hot summers and do not indicate permanent 1970), Porto Cesareo–Puglia, Italy (Trono 2006); one from
populations (Saunders 1980). It has also been found in the Malta (Cacchia et al. 1993); and two for Aegean Sea: Cy-
Atlantic islands of Madeira, Canary and the Azores (Nobre prus (Ozturk et al. 2003), Messinia–Greece (Fischer 2005;
1937; Nordsieck and Garcìa-Talavera 1979; Poppe and Goto Koukouras 2010) (Fig. 1). Regarding the Adriatic Sea, Costa
1991; Moro et al. 2003; Bacallado et al. 2008; Segers et al. (1829) wrote generically „found in Adriatic“, without specify-
2009). ing any locality. Coen (1937) reports a finding from “the Ital-
ian coast of the Southern Adriatic Sea” and again no specific
Although it is not very common elsewhere, there are information was provided. There are no other data available
numerous reports, old and new, for the Western Mediter- since 1937, in particular this species is not mentioned in
ranean, showing that there are at present stable and viable specific works concerning the malacological fauna of Mon-
populations. In particular, there are countless reports of the tenegro (Stjepčević 1967; Stjepčević and Parenzan 1980) or
species from the Italian regions on the Tyrrhenian Sea. in general of the Middle and Southern Adriatic (Cossignani
et al. 1992; Dhora 2009). Cabestana cutacea is not even men-
Although by no means exhaustive, here we present re- tioned for the Adriatic Sea in the “checklist of Italian marine
cords known to us for the Mediterranean Sea (Fig. 1). In animal species” (Oliverio 2008). Thus we consider it interest-
the western Mediterranean, C. cutacea was reported several ing to report this new record, as a contribution to the present
times for Morocco, Algeria and southern Spain, while most knowledge of the malacological fauna of Adriatic Sea.
of the data come from the western coast of Italy (Tyrrhenian
*Corresponding author: vmacic@ibmk.org