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Paradrillia melvilli Powell 1969

  • 1. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand & Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels - Standort Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, Hamburg 20146, Germany
  • 2. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LEHNA UMR 5023, CNRS, ENTPE, F- 69622, Villeurbanne, France
  • 3. Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Rue de la Mouline, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 4. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
  • 5. Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok 10110, Thailand

Description

Paradrillia melvilli Powell, 1969

Figs 4 N, 9 C

Paradrillia melvilli Powell, 1969: 314 – 315, pl. 242, fig. 2; pl. 245, figs 1, 2. Type locality: Persian Gulf. Robba et al. 2004: 137, 139, pl. 19, fig. 2. Robba et al. 2007: 95 (appendix). Wells et al. 2021: 107.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - G 52 (7 shells; Figs 4 N, 9 C).

Habitat.

Sublittoral and upper bathyal zones (Robba et al. 2004).

Distribution.

Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean; Gulf of Thailand. Records of fossils from the Holocene in Thailand (Robba et al. 2004).

Record in Thailand.

Gulf of Thailand (Wells et al. 2021).

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species is recognised based on the descriptions and figures in Powell (1969) and Robba et al. (2004), specifically in having a light built claviform shell with a medially situated blunt peripheral keel bearing rather weak cog-like axial nodes, approximately 18 or 19 per whorl.

Notes

Published as part of Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Cuny, Gilles, Kocsis, László, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Ngamnisai, Nom, Charoentitirat, Thasinee, Kumpitak, Satapat & Suraprasit, Kantapon, 2024, Mid-Holocene marine faunas from the Bangkok Clay deposits in Nakhon Nayok, the Central Plain of Thailand, pp. 1-110 in ZooKeys 1202 on pages 1-110, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1202.119389

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References

  • Powell AWB (1969) The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2: 215 - 416. https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 49824050
  • Robba E, Di Geronimo I, Chaimanee N, Negri MP, Sanfilippo R (2004) Holocene and recent shallow soft-bottom mollusks from the Northern Gulf of Thailand area: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda, additions to Bivalvia. La Conchiglia. International Shell Magazine 35: 1 – 290.
  • Robba E, Di Geronimo I, Chaimanee N, Negri MP, Sanfilippo R (2007) Holocene and recent shallow soft-bottom mollusks from the Western Gulf of Thailand: Pak Phanang Bay and additions to Phetchaburi fauna. Bollettino Malacologico 43: 1 – 98.
  • Wells FE, Sanpanich K, Tan SK, Duangdee T (2021) The Marine and Estuarine Molluscs of Thailand. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum National University of Singapore, Singapore, 195 pp. https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/LKCNHM-EBOOK-2021-0001.pdf
  • Powell AWB (1969) The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2: 215 – 416. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49824050