Siphonochelus fistulosus ( Brocchi, 1814 )

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 : 122

Siphonochelus fistulosus ( Brocchi, 1814)

1814 Murex fistulosus – BROCCHI, p. 394, pl. 7, fig. 12.

2007 Siphonochelus fistulosus (Brocchi) – LANDAU et al., p. 59, text-fig. 16/1, pl. 15, fig. 3 (cum syn.).

Material – 98specimens;Coşteiu:M.59.2008(22),M.60.6936(36),M.60.6938 (8), M.60.6939 (2), M.60.10275 (11), M.64.402 (18); Lăpugiu: M.60.7983.

Remarks – The species is widespread in the Paratethys, but it is usually a rare element of the mollusc assemblages. However, at two localities in the Central Paratethys, Coşteiu and Tekeres (Mecsek Mts, SW Hungary) it is extremely abundant.