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Actaeon vindobonensis sensu Papp 1954

  • 1. Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria mathias. harzhauser @ nhm. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4471 - 6655
  • 2. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands; Instituto Dom Luiz da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749 - 016 Lisboa, Portugal; and International Health Centres, Av. Infante de Henrique 7, Areias São João, P- 8200 Albufeira, Portugal bernardmlandau @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7768 - 8494
  • 3. Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria mathias. harzhauser @ nhm. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4471 - 6655 & Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, PB 7800, 5020 - Bergen, Norway manuel. malaquias @ uib. no; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9668 - 945 X & Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria mathias. harzhauser @ nhm. at; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4471 - 6655

Description

Actaeon vindobonensis sensu Papp, 1954 [non Handmann, 1882]

[= Amathinidae: Leucotina sp.]

Actaeon vindobonensis (Handmann) — Papp 1954: 57, pl. 3, figs 21–22 [non Conovulus vindobonensis Handmann, 1882].

non Acteon vindobonensis (Handmann) — Fordinál & Zlinská 1998: 138, pl. 1, fig. 3 [= Adelactaeon schwartzi (Handmann, 1883)].

Discussion. Papp (1954) illustrated a small Sarmatian shell (SL: 3.8, MD. 2.0 mm), assuming that it represented a species described by Handmann (1882: 564) as Conovulus (?) vindobonensis. The holotype of Conovulus (?) vindobonensis from the Sarmatian of Bad Vöslau (Austria) was stored in the Kollegium Kalksburg in Vienna, a Catholic private school, but is lost. Handmann (1883) described a small (SL: 2 mm, MD: 1 mm), smooth, inflated shell of five whorls with a thick outer lip and small columellar denticle. It was established in the ellobiid genus Conovulus Lamarck, 1816 [= Melampus Montfort, 1810] and might represent a Pyramidellidae. In any case the specimen illustrated by Papp (1954) differs considerably in its prominent spiral sculpture of deep, punctate grooves. This morphology is reminiscent of the Amathinidae genus Leucotina A. Adams, 1860 [type species Leucotina niphonensis A. Adams, 1860; present-day, Japan] and therefore we exclude it from Acteonidae.

Distribution in Central Paratethys. Sarmatian (Middle Miocene): Vienna Basin: Hölles (Austria) (Papp 1954).

Notes

Published as part of Harzhauser, Mathias, Landau, Bernard M. & Malaquias, Manuel António E., 2026, Marine shelled Heterobranchia in part (Gastropoda) of the Miocene Central Paratethys Sea, pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 5742 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5742.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19166173

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