Charonia lampas ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34, pp. 75-104 : 85

Charonia lampas ( Linnaeus, 1758)

(Figs 27–28)

1758 Murex lampas – LINNAEUS, p. 748.

2004 Charonia lampas (Linnaeus) – LANDAU et al., p. 53, pl. 4, fig. 1 (cum syn.).

2013 Charonia lampas (Linnaeus) – LANDAU et al., p. 126, pl. 18, figs 1–3 (cum syn.).

Material – 28 specimens (SL 20–74); HNHM: INV 2017.673 . (Fig. 27), INV 2017.674. (5) , 22 specimens in private collections.

Description – Large, fusiform shell, elevated spire, slightly convex teleoconch whorls, concave sutural ramp, last whorl 72% of the total height, constricted at the base. Ovate aperture, denticulate outer lip thickened by labral varix, short, deep, recurved siphonal canal, excavated, plicate columella, long fasciole. Spiral sculpture of numerous fine cords, two rows of tubercles on spire whorls, two stronger and three weaker rows on the last whorl, axial sculpture of varices.

Remarks – The species is characterized by wide palaeogeographical and stratigraphical distributions, and extreme morphological variability; the taxonomic revision was accomplished by LANDAU et al. (2004). C. lampas was recorded from Sámsonháza (Cserhát Mts) by NOSZKY (1925) as Triton nodiferum Lamarck , but it has never been illustrated in the Hungarian literature.

Distribution – Aquitanian-Burdigalian: NEA ( France), Burdigalian: PMS ( Italy), Badenian: CP ( Austria, Hungary, Poland), Serravallian: PMS ( Turkey), Late Miocene: Caribbean ( Dominican Republic), Pacific ( Japan, New Zealand). For Eocene and Pliocene-Recent range see LANDAU et al. (2013).