A new Skenea species from Mediterranean Sea, with notes on Skenea serpuloides (Montagu, 1808) (Gastropoda, Vetigastropoda, Skeneidae) Una nueva especie de Skenea del Mediterraneo, con notas sobre Skenea serpuloides (Montagu, 1808) (Gastropoda, Vetigastropoda, Skeneidae) Luigi ROMANI*, Cesare BOGI**, Stefano BARTOLINI*** Recibido 6-V-2015. Aceptado el 10-VI-2015 ABSTRACT A new Mediterranean species of the genus Skenea (Gastropoda, Vetigastropoda, Skenei- dae), Skenea giemellorum sp. nov., is described. It is assigned to this genus based on comparison of conchological characters with the type species, Skenea serpuloides, for which sculptural variability is reported. Skenea giemellorum is also compared with other similar species. RESUMEN Se describe una nueva especie mediterránea del género Skenea (Gastropoda, Vetigastro- poda, Skeneidae), Skenea giemellorum sp. nov. Se asigna a éste género comparando caracteres conquiológicos con la especie tipo, Skenea serpuloides, para la cual se hace una reseña de la variabilidad de escultura. Se compara también Skenea giemellorum con otras especies similares. INTRODUCTION The family Skeneidae Clark W., 1851 is a speciose group of small vetigastro- pods for which information on anatomi- cal and molecular characters are largely incomplete. This group has been treated as a subfamily of the Turbinidae Rafi- nesque, 1815 or as a separate family. Genera presently assigned to Turbinidae form a heterogeneous and probably polyphyletic group (BOUCHET & ROCROI, 2005; WILLIAMS & OZAWA, 2006; WILLIAMS, 2008; HICKMAN, 2013). The limits and internal relationships of the Skeneidae are currently so chaotic that WILLIAMS (2012) stated that “this group is in desperate need of revision”. The mediterranean Skeneid fauna is relatively well known (WARéN, 1992 and references therein; RUBIO, DANTART & LUQUE, 1998; LA PERNA, 1999; CARROZZA & VAN AARTSEN, 2001; RUBIO & RODRI- GUEZ BABIO, 1991; CRETELLA & FASULO, 2003; RUBIO, DANTART & LUQUE, 2004; PEñAS, ROLáN, LUQUE, TEMPLADO, * Via delle ville 79, 55013 Lammari (LU), Italy, E-mail: luigiromani78@gmail.com ** Via Gino Romiti, 37, I-57124 Livorno, Italy, E-mail: bogicesare@tiscali.it *** Via Ermete Zacconi, 16 - 50137 Firenze, Italy, E-mail: stefmaria.bartolini@alice.it 1 Corresponding author © Sociedad Española de Malacología Iberus, 33 (2): 159-165, 2015 159