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Aspa marginata

  • 1. & Zoltán VICIÁN & H- 1077 Budapest, Wesselényi utca 52, Hungary. E-mail: kovacs. zoltan @ lisztakademia. hu
  • 2. H- 1158 Budapest, Neptun utca 86, 10 / 42, Hungary. E-mail: kauri 72 @ gmail. com

Description

Aspa marginata (Gmelin, 1791)

(Figs 55–56)

1791 Buccinum marginatum – GMELIN, p. 3486.

1966 Bursa (Aspa) marginata depressa Grateloup – STRAUSZ, p. 251, pl. 29, figs 5–6, pl. 63, figs 14–18.

2013 Aspa marginata (Gmelin) – LANDAU et al., p. 131, pl. 19, fig. 9 (cum syn.).

Material – 160 specimens (SL 14–42); HNHM: INV 2017.687. (Fig. 55), INV 2017.688. (Fig. 56), INV 2017.689. (15), 143 specimens in private collections.

Description – Ovate, dorsoventrally compressed shell, low spire, four teleoconch whorls, convex last whorl 85% of the total height. Ovate, denticulate aperture, straight, long anal canal, short, recurved siphonal canal, concave columella, thickened parietal callus, short, recurved fasciole. Spiral sculpture of fine cords, tubercles at the shoulder, axial sculpture of two varices per whorl.

Remarks – The species is widely distributed in the Badenian localities of Hungary, and it was abundant in the mollusc assemblage of Letkés.

Distribution – Burdigalian-Langhian: PMS (Italy), Ottnangian: CP (Germany), Karpatian: CP (Austria), Badenian: CP (Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine), Serravallian: PMS (Turkey), Tortonian: NEA (Portugal, France), PMS (Italy). For Pliocene-Pleistocene range see LANDAU et al. (2013).

Notes

Published as part of Kovács, Zoltán & Vicián, Zoltán, 2017, Middle Miocene Tonnoidea and Ficoidea (Caenogastropoda) assemblages from Letkés (Hungary), pp. 75-104 in Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 34 on page 95, DOI: 10.17111/FragmPalHung.2017.34.75, http://zenodo.org/record/15627274

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HNHM
Material sample ID
INV 2017.687
Scientific name authorship
Gmelin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Littorinimorpha
Family
Bursidae
Genus
Aspa
Species
marginata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aspa marginata (Gmelin, 1791) sec. Kovács & Vicián, 2017

References

  • GMELIN J. F. 1791: Caroli a Linne Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae. Tomus 1, pars 6, Vermes. - Delamolliere, Lugduni, 3021-3910.
  • LANDAU B. M., HARZHAUSER M., ISLAMOGLU Y. & SILVA C. M. 2013: Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. - Cainozoic Research 11 - 13: 1-584.