Description of a new species of the genus Trophonopsis Bucquoyet Dautzenberg, 1882 (Gastropoda Muricidae Pagodulinae) from the Mediterranean Sea

Based on shell characters, a new species of the gastropod family Muricidae, Trophonopsis sparacioi n. sp., from Mediterranean Sea is described. Shells of the new taxon were collected from bathyal bottoms, in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The new taxon is compared with others species of the genus Trophonopsis Bucquoy et Dautzenberg, 1882, occurring in northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea