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Are Pinctada radiata and P. fucata only synonyms or really different species? The case of some Mediterranean populations 421

Figures 35, 36, 39, 40: Pinctada radiata. Fig. 35, photograph of the internal soft parts of the specimen in figure 39, h: 42
mm. Fig. 36, detail of the anal funnel. Fig. 40, byssus, same data of figure 35. Figures 37, 38, 41–50: Pinctada fucata. Fig.
37, photograph of the internal soft parts of the specimen in fig. 41, h: 40 mm. Fig. 38, detail of the anal funnel. Fig. 42,
byssus, same data of fig. 37. Figs. 43–50, living specimens attached to various substrata from Catania “Playa”. Fig. 43,
group of specimens attached each other. Fig. 44, specimens on valves of Acanthocardia tuberculata. Fig. 45: specimens on
a valve of Fulvia fragilis and the shell of Neverita josephinae. Fig. 46: specimens on the shell of a small Pinna nobilis. Fig.
47: a specimen on the tube of Sabella spallanzanii. Fig. 48: specimens on a rhizome of Cymodocea nodosa. Fig. 49: a spe-
cimen on Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla. Fig. 50, a specimen on an ascidian of the genus Microcosmus.