A revision of the Australian fossil species of Zoila (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) Author Darragh, Thomas A. text Memoirs of Museum Victoria 2011 2011-12-31 68 1 28 https://museumsvictoria.com.au/collections-research/journals/memoirs-of-museum-victoria/volume-68-2011/pages-1-28/ journal article 10.24199/j.mmv.2011.68.01 1447-2554 10665999 Zoila dolichorhyncha sp. nov. Figures 8A–F , 9C–E Description . Shell of large size for genus, solid, pyriform, somewhat humped posteriorly and tapering anteriorly, of six teleoconch whorls. Spire projecting slightly, almost enveloped by last whorl, covered with thick callus. Protoconch of one smooth whorl, not differentiated from teleoconch whorls, coiled with the axis of the shell. Posterior canal short, deeply incised, reflexed to left. Anterior canal deeply incised, with rounded sides, reflexed dorsally, supported laterally by short, narrow flanges. Aperture sinuous, slightly widened and sloping steeply inwards before anterior canal; outer lip with 23–33 teeth extending along entire lip, on some specimens becoming very weak posteriorly; inner lip with 3–11 teeth (generally fewer than 10) present on anterior third of lip. Fossula well developed, broad, relatively deeply depressed, bounded anteriorly by weak terminal ridge. Figure 7. A–F, Zoila glomerabilis ; A–C, paratype, P308740, Torquay, × 1; D–F, holotype, P14515, Bird Rock cliffs, Torquay, × 1. Figure 8. A–F, Zoila dolichorhyncha ; A, C, E, paratype, P304418, PL3028, × 1; B, D, F, holotype, P14514, PL 3028, × 1.

L	W	H	LT	CT
Holotype SAM T822	102	64	49	29	8
Figured specimen P13374	96	60	45	32	11 topotype
Figured specimen P3044471	106	63	49	23+	14 Curlewis

Dimensions . Type locality . Lower bed, Table Cape , Wynyard , Tasmania , (i.e. PL3028 lower bed in cliff between Fossil Bluff and l. 5 km northwest towards Table Cape , Wynyard , Tasmania , Table Cape 930630). Freestone Cove Sandstone , Early Miocene , early Longfordian .

L	W	H	LT	CT
Holotype P14514	101	60	52	33	10
Paratype P304417	81	47	42	26	7
Paratype P304418	79	51	45	24	8

Type material . Holotype P14514, purchased R . N. Atkinson , 8 May 1911 ; paratypes P304417-8, purchased R . N. Atkinson , 15 January 1910 . Time range . Longfordian, Early Miocene Occurrence and material . Table Cape (P2644, P14618, P2766- 2770, P14595-6, P304417, P304449-50, 11 specimens ) ; Crassatella bed, Fossil Bluff (P304440, one specimen ) ; lower bed, Table Cape (P308708, P304431, P304433, seven specimens ) . Remarks . This species has been mistaken for Zoila platypyga (McCoy) and recorded as such in lists of fossils from Table Cape published by Johnston (1888 , p. 262) and Pritchard (1896 , p. 106). It probably evolved from Z. glomerabilis sp. nov. , from which it differs by being pyriform with a tapering anterior rather than being globose. Zoila glomerabilis has a uniformly rounded dorsum, whereas Z. dolichorhyncha sp. nov. has a dorsum humped posteriorly. Etymology. Greek, dolichos, long; rhynchos, snout.