The Lower Pliocene marine gastropods of Santa Maria Island, Azores: Taxonomy and palaeobiogeographic implications
Author
Sacchetti, Claudia
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claudiasacc@icloud.com
Author
Landau, Bernard
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bernardmlandau@gmail.com
Author
Ávila, Sérgio P.
0000-0002-3225-3139
claudiasacc@icloud.com
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-24
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5295.1.1
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Murex Vindobonensis
Hoernes
—
Mayer 1864: 71
.
Discussion.
As with the species above, this determination was based on two small fragments from Feteirinhas (= Ponta das Salinas) and said to belong to the
Murex erinaceus
group. Today, this species is placed in the genus
Ocenebra
Gray, 1847
. Two sub-species are recognized
O. vindobonensis vindobonensis
(Ĥrnes, 1853), present in the Lower and Middle Miocene Paratethys and eastern Proto-Mediterranean, and
O. vindobonensis ligeriana
(Tournouër, 1875)
from the Atlantic middle Miocene of the
Loire
Basin,
France
. This species complex is typically Miocene (
Landau
et al.
, 2006c
), and we prefer to exclude this record until further verified.