Pterynotus (Pterynotus) pseuderinaceus ( 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 : 117

Pterynotus (Pterynotus) pseuderinaceus ( Boettger, 1902)

(Figs 13–14)

1902 Murex (Pteronotus) pseuderinaceus – BOETTGER, p. 28.

1934 Murex (Pterynotus) pseuderinaceus – ZILCH, p. 251, pl. 15, fig. 76.

Material – 1 specimen; Coşteiu: M.60.6959.

Remarks – The specimen figured here is close in morphology to the type. It is characterized by small, worn shell (SL 6), eroded protoconch, four shouldered teleoconch whorls (last whorl 63% of the total length), wide, ovate aperture, smooth lips within, and wide, open siphonal canal. Spiral sculpture of strong primary cords (P1–P2 on the spire whorls, P1–P6 on the last whorl), axial sculpture of four varices on the spire whorls and three varices on the last whorl. New collecting works prove the occurrence of the species in the Lower Badenian deposits of Mecsekpölöske (Mecsek Mts, SW Hungary). The studied specimens are of similar size and identical morphology; the records confirm the validity of the taxon.