Poirieria (Pagodula) varicosissima ( Michelotti, 1841 )

Kovács, Zoltán, 2018, Muricidae (Neogastropoda) assemblages from the Middle Miocene of the Făget Basin (Romania) in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 35, pp. 111-142 : 118

Poirieria (Pagodula) varicosissima ( Michelotti, 1841)

(Figs 17–18)

1841 Murex varicosissimus Bonelli m.s. – MICHELOTTI, p. 9, pl. 5, figs 13–14.

1935 Streptochetus (Pagodula) varicosissimus (Bonelli) – MONTANARO, p. 59, pl. 4, figs 8–9.

? 1966 Trophon varicosissimus Bonelli – STRAUSZ, p. 269, pl. 32, figs 5–6 (cum syn.).

1969 Trophon varicosissimus spiniferus n. sp. – CSEPREGHY-MEZNERICS, p. 81, pl. 4, figs 2–4. 1971 –1972 Trophon varicosissimus Bonelli – CSEPREGHY-MEZNERICS, p. 27, pl. 9, figs 18, 25.

non 2011 Trophon varicosissimus Bonelli – CAPROTTI, p. 65, fig. 6Q–R (=? Turricula sp. ).

Material – 8 specimens; Coşteiu: M.59.1873A–B, M.59.2028, M.60.6928 B–C, M.60.6929, M.60.6992; Lăpugiu: M.59.1997.

Remarks – Two Pagodula species are known in the Middle Miocene Paratethys, P. vaginata (De Cristofori et Jan) and P. varicosissima (Michelotti) . P. varicosissima differs from the former by paucispiral protoconch and less developed spines. The type of Trophon varicosissimus spiniferus ( CSEPREGHY-MEZNERICS 1969, pl. 4, fig. 3) fits within the variability of P. varicosissima .