The Cainozoic to present-day record of Circum-Mediterranean, NE Atlantic and North Sea Cantharidinae and Trochinae (Trochoidea, Gastropoda) - a synopsis
Author
Harzhauser, Mathias
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-05
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Subgenus
Phorcus
Risso, 1826
Type
species.
Phorcus margaritaceus
Risso, 1826
[=
Phorcus richardi
(Payraudeau, 1826)
],
SD
(Bucquoy
et al
. 1885: 399). Present-day, Mediterranean Sea.
Diagnosis.
Subtriangular, turbiniform shells with moderately convex teleoconch whorls and convex base. Umbilicus initially open, narrowing during ontogeny; usually minute or fully sealed, but open in few species. Shell surface either smooth or with low, broad spiral cords (see also
Affenzeller
et al.
2017
).
Remarks.
The oldest occurrences are documented from the Late Miocene of the NE Atlantic (
Landau
et al
. 2017
;
Martín-González
et al
. 2018
). Mediterranean records all post-date the Messinian Salinity Crisis, suggesting an immigration with Atlantic faunas during the early Pliocene. The generic placement of extant species follows
Donald
et al
. (2012)
.
= Neptheusa
Leach in Gray, 1852;
type
species:
Trochus crassus
Pulteney, 1799
, by monotypy. Present-day, British Isles.
= Umbiculus
Nordsieck, 1982;
type
species
Trochus richardi
var.
pallida
Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884
[=
Phorcus richardi
(Payraudeau, 1826)
], OD (Nordsieck 1982: 26). Present-day, Mediterranean Sea. Introduced as “Sektion” (= section) of
Gibbula
(
Gibbula
)
, which makes it an available name according to ICZN Article 10.4. (
A uninominal name
proposed for a genus-group division of a genus, even if proposed for a secondary (or further) subdivision, is deemed to be a subgeneric name even if the division is denoted by a term such as “section” or “division
).
=
Mutilastra
Nordsieck, 1974
;
type
species
Trochus mutabilis
Philippi, 1851
, OD (
Nordsieck
1974: 21). Present-day:
NE Atlantic
(
Portugal
); Mediterranean Sea.