New Cenozoic Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Europe Author Merle, Didier Author Pacaud, Jean-Michel Author Ledon, Daniel Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Département Origines et Évolution (CR 2 P - MNHN, CNRS, UPMC, Sorbonne Université), 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) didier. merle @ mnhn. fr (corresponding author) jean-michel. pacaud @ mnhn. fr dnledon @ yahoo. fr didier.merle@mnhn.fr Author Goret, Bernard Raoul Ponchon, F- 31500 Toulouse (France) bernardgoret @ hotmail. com bernardgoret@hotmail.com text Geodiversitas 2024 2024-10-24 46 15 495 551 https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2024v46a15.pdf journal article 10.5252/geodiversitas2024v46a15 1638-9395 13985760 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C32EAAFD-85D8-45CD-8DF7-B894E1537713 Genus Textiliomurex Merle, 2011 TYPE SPECIES . — Murex textiliosus Lamarck, 1803 by original designation. Middle Eocene: Paris basin, France and Hampshire Basin, England . COMMENTS ON THE GENUS Textiliomurex shares similarities with Pterynotus ( s.s. ) and Pterynotus ( Pterymarchia ) such as a scabrous surface, columellar denticles and a series of internal denticles including ID, D1 to D6. Textiliomurex does not display trivaricate axial sculpture and lacks intervarices, usually found in Pterynotus ( s.s. ). The number of varices on the last whorls of Textiliomurex is higher (9-11) than in Pterymarchia (3-5, see Houart 1995 ). As with Pterynotus , we cannot give a subfamilial placement to this genus. Merle et al. (2011: 127) included six species in the genus. Recently, Lozouet (2023) added (with some doubt) one species from the Chattian of the Aquitaine Basin ( Textiliomurex ? problematicus Lozouet, 2023 ), and we add a new species from the Lutetian of the Paris Basin herein.