https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130261 2026-04-10T23:25:58Z 2026-04-10T23:25:58Z Cilia, David P. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130301 2025-01-06T06:47:53Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The conchological collection of Giacomo Depasquale (1870–1955) & Vincenzo A. Depasquale (1920–2012), with a note on historical records of Lauria cylindracea (Da Costa, 1778) (Gastropoda: Lauriidae) from Malta Authors: Cilia, David P. Abstract: The natural history collection of two Maltese collectors, Giacomo DEPASQUALE (1870–1955) and his son Vincenzo Agostino DEPASQUALE (1920–2012), was donated to the National Museum of Natural History, Malta, in July of 2024. The collection, containing items of substantial historical and scientific value, is largely conchological in scope, albeit also including several geological and other organic specimens. Labels accompanying some of the specimens establish links with renowned international conchologists. Older records of Lauria cylindracea from Malta are reviewed.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Cilia, David P. Fuchs, Dirk Goolaerts, Stijn https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130300 2025-01-06T06:41:01Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An annotated checklist of the Oligo-Miocene cephalopods of the Maltese Islands Authors: Cilia, David P.; Fuchs, Dirk; Goolaerts, Stijn Abstract: A systematic checklist of cephalopod fossils (Phylum Mollusca: Class Cephalopoda) recorded from the Oligo-Miocene sedimentary sequence of the Maltese archipelago is given. It consists of species of the nautilid genera Aturia and Eutrephoceras, next to calcified parts of the nautilid animal’s upper jaw placed under the parataxon Rhyncolites, and of sepiid and spirulid coleoid genera Sepia (Sepiida) and Spirulirostra (Spirulirostrida). Cephalopod fossils from the Maltese archipelago, in particular abundant limonitic or phosphoritic specimens of Aturia and Sepia, have been recorded in scientific literature since the middle part of the 19th Century. The identification of several species of Sepia is hampered by lost type material and taphonomic distortion or loss of diagnostic traits.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Cilia, David P. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130294 2025-01-03T14:39:40Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural History, Malta : volume 1, issue 2 Authors: Cilia, David P. Abstract: Table of Contents:; - A new Mediterranean species of Mangelia Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Mangeliidae), described from the Maltese Islands - Cachia, Charles;; - An annotated checklist of the Oligo-Miocene cephalopods of the Maltese Islands - Cilia, David P., Fuchs, D., Goolaerts, S.;; - The conchological collection of Giacomo DEPASQUALE (1870–1955) & Vincenzo A. DEPASQUALE (1920–2012), with a note on historical records of Lauria cylindracea (Da Costa, 1778) (Gastropoda: Lauriidae) from Malta - Cilia, David P.;; -Catalogue of the non-marine Mollusca from the Maltese Islands in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Malta - Cachia, Charles, Mifsud, Constantine, Sammut, Paul M., Sammut, Charles I., Cilia, David P.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Cachie, Charles Mifsud, Constantine Sammut, Charles I. Sammut, Paul M. Cilia, David P. https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/130293 2025-01-03T14:19:50Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Catalogue of the non-marine Mollusca from the Maltese Islands in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Malta Authors: Cachie, Charles; Mifsud, Constantine; Sammut, Charles I.; Sammut, Paul M.; Cilia, David P. Abstract: Part of the malacological collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Mdina, Malta, consists of 1626 lots representing 86 species and subspecies of non-marine molluscs (Mollusca: Gastropoda and Bivalvia) collected from the Maltese Islands. This collection has been renovated and augmented in recent years, in efforts to address significant damage caused by the Second World War, exacerbated by subsequent neglect of the collection. A systematic and taxonomically updated catalogue of the lots is presented.

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