Retusa truncatula
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Retusa truncatula (Bruguière, 1792)
(Fig. 7 D1-D3)Bulla truncatula Bruguière, 1792: 377.
Retusa truncatula – Landau et al. 2013: 337, pl. 77, fig. 11 (cum syn.).
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sample F11: AMPG (IV) 2541-2544 (four specimens).
DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height: 0.62 mm.
DISTRIBUTION. — Early Miocene. Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Greece (this paper) (Aquitanian); Paratethys: Austria (Harzhauser 2002) (Burdigalian).
Middle Miocene. NE Atlantic: France (Peyrot 1932); Proto-Mediterranean Sea: Turkey (Landau et al. 2013); Paratethys: Austria (Hörnes 1856; Berger 1953), Poland (Bałuk 1970), Hungary (Strausz 1966).
Late Miocene. NE Atlantic: Portugal (Landau et al. 2013), Mediterranean Sea: Italy (Sacco 1896).
Early Pliocene. NE Atlantic: Spain (Landau et al. 2011), central Mediterranean Sea: Italy (Chirli 2013).
Early Pleistocene. central and eastern Mediterranean Sea: Italy (Cerulli-Irelli 1910), Greece (Koskeridou et al. 2009).
Early-Middle Pleistocene. eastern Mediterranean Sea: Greece (Nielsen et al. 2006).
Recent. NE Atlantic, Baltic Sea to Canary Islands and Mediterranean Sea (Thompson 1988; MolluscaBase 2018).
REMARKS
Juveniles, small specimens and fragments of Retusa truncatula were recovered in the Greek material. The morphology of the specimens of the present material is consistent with the range of variation of R. truncatula.
Retusa truncatula has been recorded widely in the fossil record and it is still present in the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (Landau et al. 2013; MolluscaBase 2018). It is possible that we are dealing with a cryptic species since the taxon seems very long-lived and widespread. As Oskars et al. (2015) mention, the phylogenetic relationships of the family should be investigated in detail, which could bring more information relative to the fossil representatives of the family Retusidae.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bruguiere
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Cephalaspidea
- Family
- Retusidae
- Genus
- Retusa
- Species
- truncatula
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Retusa truncatula (Bruguiere, 1792) sec. Thivaiou, Harzhauser & Koskeridou, 2019
References
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- LANDAU B. M., HARZHAUSER M., ISLAMOGLU Y. & DA SILVA C. M. 2013. - Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research 11 - 13: 3 - 584.
- PEYROT A. 1932. - Conchologie neogenique de l'Aquitaine. Actes de la Societe linneenne de Bordeaux 84 (1): 5 - 128.
- HORNES M. 1856. - Die fossilen Mollusken des Tertiar-Beckens von Wien. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 3: 461 - 736.
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- STRAUSZ L. 1966. - Die Miozan-Mediterranen Gastropoden Ungarns. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 692 p.
- SACCO F. 1896. - I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, 19. (Turritellidae e Mathildidae). Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della Reale Universita di Torino 11 (267): 79 - 81. https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11822455
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- CHIRLI C. 2013. - Malacofauna Pliocenica Toscana, 9. Gastropoda fine Scaphopoda. C. Chirli, Firenze, 169 p.
- KOSKERIDOU E., DRINIA H. & MOISSETTE P. 2009. - Marginal marine benthic assemblages in a highly variable setting (Late Pliocene, Rhodes Island, Greece). 9 th Symposium on Oceanography & Fisheries, 3 - 16 May Patras, Greece, Proceedings 1: 91 - 94.
- NIELSEN J. K., HANKEN N. - M., NIELSEN J. K. & HANSEN 2006. - Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the marine Pleistocene of Rhodes, Greece: Scleractinia, Serpulidae, Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of Geoscience 81 (3): 173 - 196. https: // doi. org / 10.3140 / bull. geosci. 2006.03.173
- THOMPSON T. E. 1988. - Molluscs: Benthic opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda), in KERMACK D. M. & BARNES R. S. K. (eds), S ynopses of the British Fauna (New Series) 8 (Second Edition). E. J. Brill / Dr. W. Backhuys, Leiden, 356 p.
- MOLLUSCABASE 2018. - Retusa T. Brown, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http: // www. marinespecies. org / aphia. php rp = taxdetails & id = 138432 on 2018 - 06 - 18
- OSKARS T. R., BOUCHET P. & MALAQUIAS M. A. E. 2015. - A new phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) based on expanded taxon sampling and gene markers. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 89: 130 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2015.04.011