“…The identification of the LBF was based on the biometric characteristics of equatorial sections, integrating different procedures and various biometric parameters proposed in the literature ( Fig. 4; Tan, 1932;Drooger and Socin, 1959;Van der Vlerk, 1959, 1963Amato and Drooger, 1969;Matteucci and Schiavinotto, 1977;Schiavinotto, 1979;Chaproniere, 1980;Drooger, 1993;Verrubbi and Schiavinotto, 2005;Hohenegger, 2011;Benedetti et al, 2017;Torres-Silva et al, 2017;Briguglio, 2018). Following Özcan et al (2009) the notation exemplum intercentrale was used whenever the mean value of the identifying parameter of a group of specimens fell very close to the limits of two contiguous species of the same lineage.…”