Aspella emmae ( Boettger, 1902 )

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 : 119

Aspella emmae ( Boettger, 1902)

(Figs 21–23, 24–25)

1902 Ranella (Argobuccinum) emmae – BOETTGER, p. 26.

1934 Argobuccinum emmae (Boettger) – ZILCH, p. 250, pl. 14, fig. 72 [non fig. 73:? Aspella subanceps (d’Orbigny, 1852) ].

1969 Argobuccinum emmae (Boettger) – CSEPREGHY-MEZNERICS, p. 79, pl. 3, figs 2, 4, 7.

2011 Aspella emmae (Boettger) – MERLE et al., text-fig. 71/G, p. 558, pl. 157, figs 4–5.

Material – 11 specimens;Coşteiu:M.60.6894(4),M.60.6896 (3), M.60.10236 (2), M.60.10923 (2).

Remarks – Two Aspella species occur in the Badenian Central Paratethys: A. subanceps (d’Orbigny) and A. emmae (Boettger) . The latter differs from A. subanceps by paucispiral protoconch and smooth shell surface.