Penethais, Vermeij, 2024

Harzhauser, Mathias, Landau, Bernard M. & Merle, Didier, 2025, The Muricidae (Gastropoda, Muricoidea) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea (Aspellinae, Ergalataxinae, Coralliophilinae, Rapaninae), Zootaxa 5611 (1), pp. 1-106 : 94-95

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scientific name	Penethais
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Penethais View in CoL ? sutii ( Kovács & Vicián, 2024)

Figs 48 View FIGURE 48 , 53A View FIGURE 53 1 –A View FIGURE 1 3 View FIGURE 3

Thaisella View in CoL ? sp.— Kovács et al. 2018: 126, figs. 8I–J.

* Acanthais View in CoL ? sutii sp. nov.— Kovács & Vicián 2024: 21, figs. 45–52. Illustrated material. Holotype, HNHM PAL 2024.138.1., SL: 18 mm, MD: 14 mm, Letkés ( Hungary), illustrated in Kovács & Vicián (2024, figs. 45–47), figs. 53A 1 –A 3. Paratypes 1, Zoltán Vicián Collection, SL: 17.2 mm, MD: 14.3 mm, illustrated in Kovács & Vicián (2024, figs. 48–50), SFM 444119, Helmut Krock Collection, SL: 14.9 mm, MD: 13.3 mm, illustrated in Kovács & Vicián (2024, figs. 51–52).

Revised description. Small, globose shell with low spire; apical angle 90°. Protoconch unknown. Teleoconch of up to four whorls. Suture indistinct. Early teleoconch whorls worn; moderately convex with prominent, tuberculate P1. Last whorl attaining 90% of total height, with narrow subsutural shelf, rounded shoulder, short, subcylindrical periphery, slowly contracting below. SP, P1, P2, P4 very prominent with large, rounded tubercles; P3 atrophied, s1, s2, s3 weak. Fasciole relatively weak, delimiting shallow, moderately broad pseudoumbilicus. Aperture moderately wide, ovate. Outer lip thin, with few narrow, long lirae reaching far into aperture. Anal canal weakly incised, moderately narrow. Siphonal canal short, wide, straight. Columella straight with weak central columellar fold, slightly twisted at siphonal canal. Columellar callus indistinct, poorly delimited from base, flattish.

Discussion. This species is characterized by its stocky, globose shell with narrow subsutural ramp, large tubercles on P1, P2 and P4 broad, convex primary cords. We are not aware of any related species from the Circum-Mediterranean Neogene.

Paleoenvironment. Occurrences at Letkés ( Hungary) point to inner neritic environments with corals ( Kovács & Vicián 2014).

Distribution in Central Paratethys. Badenian (Middle Miocene): Pannonian Basin: Letkés ( Hungary) ( Kovács et al. 2018).