Favartia (Favartia) czjzeki (Hoernes et Auinger, 1885)

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 : 123-124

Favartia (Favartia) czjzeki (Hoernes et Auinger, 1885)

(Figs 32–33)

1885 Murex (Muricidea) Czjzeki – HOERNES & AUINGER, p. 205.

1906 Murex (Muricidea) collega – BOETTGER, p. 42.

1995 Aspella (Favartia) czjzeki (Hörnes) – BAŁUK, p. 220, pl. 26, fig. 1 (cum syn.).

2016 Favartia collega (Boettger) – STEIN et al., p. 95, text-figs 49/a–g (cum syn.).

Material – 26 specimens; Coşteiu: M.60.6934, M.60.6956 (3), M.60.6964 (9), M.60.6972B–C, M.60.6976A–D, M.60.10434, M.60.10463B–C, M.60.10862 (4).

Remarks – Three Favartia (s.s.) species are known in the Early Badenian Central Paratethys: F. absona (De Cristofori et Jan) , F. suboblonga (d’Orbigny) (= M. kostejanus Boettger ), and F. czjzeki (Hoernes et Auinger) (= M. collega Boettger ) ( LANDAU et al. 2007). F.czjzeki is characterized by strong variability in the development of the spire, the length of the siphonal canal, and the number of varices on the last whorl ( BAŁUK 1995).