Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814 )

Sacchetti, Claudia, Landau, Bernard & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2023, The Lower Pliocene marine gastropods of Santa Maria Island, Azores: Taxonomy and palaeobiogeographic implications, Zootaxa 5295 (1), pp. 1-150 : 94-95

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814)

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Bulla striata Bruguière — Brocchi 1814: 276, pl. 1, fig. 6 (non B. striata BruguieÌre, 1792 ).

* Bulla utriculus Brocchi 1814: 633 .

Bulla utricula Br. — Nyst 1845: 457, pl. 39, fig. 9.

Bulla utriculus (Broc.) —Bronn in Reiss 1862: 34.

Bulla micromphalus Mayer 1864: 60 : 6, fig. 38.

Roxania utriculus (Br.) — Sacco 1897: 45, pl. 3, figs. 127-129.

Roxania utriculus var. totornata Sacco 1897: 46 , figs. 130-132.

Roxania utriculus Brocchi —Dollfus et al. 1904: 22, pl. 36, fig. 15.

Atys utriculus Broc. — Ravn 1907: 367, pl. 8, fig. 13.

Roxania utriculus Brocchi — Almera 1907: 207, pl. 15, fig. 28.

Roxania utriculus Br. — Cerulli-Irelli 1910: 36 [228], pl. 4 [35], figs. 8, 9.

Sabatia utricula Br. — Bogsch 1936: 82, pl. 3, figs. 43, 44.

Sabatia (Damoniella) utricula Brocchi — Glibert 1952a: 397, pl. 15, fig. 9.

Sabatia (Damoniella) utricula Brocchi 1814 — Glibert 1952b: 145, pl. 10, fig. 16.

Bulla utricula Brocc. —Hörnes: 618 (partim) 1856 [non pl. 50, fig. 2 = Sabatia callifera (Boettger, 1907) ].

Roxania (Roxania) utriculus utriculus (Brocchi) — Berger 1953: 111, pl. 18, figs. 75, 76.

Sabatia (Damoniella) utriculus ( Brocchi 1814) —Rossi Ronchetti 1955: 337, fig. 182.

Roxania utriculus (Brocchi) — Sorgenfrei 1958: 350, pl. 76, fig. 260.

Roxania (Roxania) utriculus (Br.) — Venzo & Pelosio 1963: 137, pl. 37, fig. 24.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi 1814) — Anderson 1964: 334, pl. 51, fig. 301.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi 1814) —van Regteren Altena et al. 1965: 48, pl. 22, fig. 209.

Sabatia utriculus Brocchi, 1814 — Strausz 1966: 480, pl. 74, figs. 36, 37.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi 1814) — Nordsieck 1972a: 123, fig. 214.

Roxania (Roxania) utriculus (Brocchi) — Fekih 1975: 145, pl. 42, fig. 11.

Bulla utriculus Brocchi, 1814 — Pinna & Spezia 1978: 134, pl. 15, fig. 2.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi 1814) — Martinell 1982c: 231, pl. 1, figs. 24, 25.

Roxania (Roxania) utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) —A.W. Janssen 1984: 373, pl. 19, fig. 2.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Thompson 1988: 48, fig. 15.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Moths 1989: 112, pl. 22, fig. 117.

Roxania (Roxania) utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Cavallo & Repetto 1992: 168, fig. 487.

Roxania (R.) utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Marquet 1997b: 115, pl. 11, fig. 9.

Roxania (R.) utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Marquet 1998a: 219, fig. 192.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Silva 2001: 589, pl. 27, figs. 9, 10.

Roxania (Roxania) utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Schnetler 2005: 164, pl. 9, fig. 20.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Wienrich 2007: 776, pl. 171, figs. 6, 7.

Roxania (Roxania) utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) —Moths & Tüxen 2008: 124, pl. 18, fig. 2.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Chirli & Richard 2008: 82, pl. 16, figs. 9, 10.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Moths et al. 2010: 91, pl. 25, fig. 9.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Landau et al. 2011: 282, fig. 94J-K.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) —Hernández et al. 2011: 43, pl. 23, fig. 12.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Chirli 2013: 41, pl. 10, figs. 12-16.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Landau et al. 2013: 332, pl. 53, figs. 1, 2.

Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) — Brunetti & Cresti 2018: 120, fig. 432.

Roxania utriculus totornata ( Sacco, 1897) [sic]— Brunetti & Cresti 2018: 120, fig. 432.

non Roxania utriculus Brocchi — Peyrot 1938: 315 [= Roxania labrella ( Férrusac, 1822) ].

Type material (of Bulla micromphalus Mayer, 1864 ). Single specimen height 17.0 mm, width 10.0 mm, Pinheiros (Baía da Cré), Santa Maria Island, Azores; whereabouts unknown ( Beu 2017:165).

Santa Maria material examined. Maximum height 8.2 mm, width 4.5 mm. DBUA-F 1027-2 (2), Malbusca, Santa Maria, Azores, Touril Complex, Lower Pliocene.

Discussion. Roxania utriculus ( Brocchi, 1814) typically has spiral sculpture on the last adult whorl restricted to the extremities, with the central portion of the whorl smooth. All Miocene to extant shells examined have this type of sculpture. However, some Miocene specimens at hand have spiral sculpture extending across the entire last whorl. This form was illustrated by Brunetti & Cresti (2018: 120) under the name Roxania utriculus totornata ( Sacco, 1897) which probably should be synonymised. The Azorean specimens are slightly slenderer than usual, the surface is somewhat decalcified but show the characteristic fine spiral sculpture at the extremities. Roxania utriculus is widespread in Miocene to present-day European Atlantic and Mediterranean assemblages. In our opinion, specimens from the Pliocene Santa Maria assemblages originally identified as Bulla utriculus by Bronn in Reiss (1862: 34) and later described as a distinct species, Bulla micromphalus ( Mayer, 1864) , fall within the variability of Roxania utriculus . Mayer’s species is thus considered a junior subjective synonym herein.

Distribution. Lower Miocene: North Sea Basin (late Burdigalian-Langhian): Belgium ( Glibert 1952b), Denmark ( Ravn 1907; Moths & Tüxen 2008), Germany ( Sorgenfrei 1958; Anderson 1964; Moths 1989; Wienrich 2007; Moths et al. 2010), Netherlands ( Nordsieck 1972a; A.W. Janssen 1984). Middle Miocene: Paratethys (Langhian-Serravallian): Austria (Hörnes 1856; Berger 1953), Hungary ( Bogsch 1936; Strausz 1966); Proto-Mediterranean (Serravallian): Karaman Basin, Turkey ( Landau et al. 2013). Upper Miocene: North Sea Basin (Tortonian): Denmark ( Schnetler 2005); Atlantic (Tortonian): Cacela Basin, Portugal (Dolfuss et al. 1904), Seville, southwestern Spain ( Cárdenas et al. 2019); Proto-Mediterranean (Tortonian and Messinian): Po Basin, Italy ( Sacco 1897; Venzo & Pelosio 1963). Lower Pliocene: North Sea Basin: Belgium ( Marquet 1997b, 1998a); Atlantic, Santa Maria Island, Azores (this paper), Guadalquivir Basin, Spain ( Landau et al. 2011); northeastern Spain (Almer 1907; Martinell, 1982c), Roussillon Basin, France ( Chirli & Richard 2008), Tunisia ( Fekih 1975); central Mediterranean, Italy ( Cavallo & Repetto 1992; Chirli 2013; Brunetti & Crest 2018). Upper Pliocene: North Sea Basin, Belgium ( Nyst 1845; Marquet 1997b, 1998a); northeastern Atlantic, Mondego Basin, central west Portugal ( Silva 2001); western Mediterranean, Estepona Basin (NHMW collection); central Mediterranean, Italy ( Sacco 1897). Lower Pleistocene: central Mediterranean, Italy ( Cerulli-Irelli 1910). Present-day: northeastern Atlantic, Scandinavia, Shetlands, Hebrides, British Isles, Portugal to Canary Islands (Hernández et al. 2011) and the Mediterranean ( Thompson 1988).

Figures

PLATE 1. A. Danilia pterostomus (Bronn, 1861), height 5.0 mm, width 4.0 mm, Forno da Cré (figure taken from Bronn in Hartung, 1861, pl. 19, fig. 2). B1-B2. Emarginula octaviana Coen, 1939, DBUA-F 487-1, height 1.8 mm, diameter 3.0 mm, Ponta do Castelo. C. Bolma cf. rugosa (Linné, 1767), DBUA-F 471-3, diameter 4.1 mm, Ponta do Castelo. D1-D5. Turbo hartungi Bronn 1861, DBUA-F 1295-1, height 9.0 mm, width 8.0 mm, Malbusca (east cave). E1-E3. Nerita cf. funata Dujardin, 1837, DBUA-F 917-1, height 4.0 mm, width 6.0 mm, Ponta do Castelo. F1-F2. Thericium crenulosum (Bronn, 1862), height 10.0 mm, width 6.0 mm, Ponta do Norte lighthouse, LNEG collection (unnumbered). G1-G2. Thericium hartungi (Mayer, 1862), height 29.0 mm, width 13.0 mm, Pinheiros (figure taken from Bronn in Reiss, 1862, pl. 1, fig. 11). H1-H2. Thericium incultum (Mayer, 1862), DBUA-F 1034-2, height 23.0 mm, width 10.0 mm, Macela viewpoint. I1-I2. Thericium incultum (Mayer, 1862), DBUA-F 1027-1, height 29.0 mm, width 11.0 mm, Malbusca II. J1-J2, K1-K2. Bittium miradouroense nov. sp., Holotype DBUAF 1034-5, height 6.8 mm, width 1.9 mm (J); Paratype DBUA-F 1034-6(1), height 5.3 mm, width 1.9 mm (K), Macela viewpoint. L1-L2, M1-M2. Bittium nov. sp., DBUA-F 488-2, height 4.5 mm, width 1.8 mm (L), height 4.2 mm, width 1.7 mm (M), Ponta do Castelo.

PLATE 3. A. A1-A2. Alvania mediolittoralis Gofas, 1989, DBUA-F 962-2, height 2.1 mm, width 1.2 mm, Ponta do Castelo. B. Alvania sleursi (Amati, 1987), DBUA-F 471-4, height 2.0 mm, width 1.1 mm, Ponta do Castelo. C1-C2. Alvania sleursi (Amati, 1987), DBUA-F 962-3, height 3.2 mm, width 1.8 mm, Ponta do Castelo. D1-D3. Rissoina pusilla (Brocchi, 1814), DBUA-F 488-1, height 5.2 mm, width 2.1 mm, Ponta do Castelo. E1-E3. Macromphalina depressa (Boettger, 1907), DBUA-F 1023-3, height height 1.0 mm, width 1.8 mm, Ponta do Castelo. F. Calyptraea chinensis (Linnaeus, 1758), DBUA-F 926-1, diameter 18.0 mm, Malbusca 2. G1-G2. Schilderia utriculata (Lamarck, 1810), height 24.0 mm, width 15.0 mm, unknown locality, LNEG collection (unnumbered). H1-H3. Erato mayeri nov. sp., Holotype DBUA-F 1189-C, height 7.7 mm, width 5.3 mm, Pedra-que-pica. I1-I3. Erato mayeri nov. sp., Paratype DBUA-F 1291-1, height 8.9 mm, width 6.0 mm, Ponta dos Frades. J1-J4. Pseudopusula parcicosta (Bronn, 1862), DBUA-F 469-1, height 9.0 mm, width 6.5 mm, Ponta do Castelo.

PLATE 6. A1-A2. Conus s.l. sp. A, DBUA-F 1292-1, height 19.0 mm, diameter 13.0 mm, Ponta dos Frades. B. Tomellana sp., height 25.0 mm (apical fragment), Ponta do Norte lighthouse, LNEG collection (unnumbered). C, D. Crassopleura maravignae (Bivona, 1838), height 12.0 mm, width 4.5 mm, Pinheiros (figure C taken from Bronn in Reiss, pl. 1, fig. 9 and figure D taken from Mayer, 1864, pl. 6, fig. 50). E1-E2. Psilaxis simplex (Bronn, 1831), DBUA-F 828-3 height 1.5 mm, width 4.5 mm, Ponta dos Frades. F. Mathilda quadricarinata (Brocchi, 1814), DBUA-F 1023-2, height 1.9 mm, width 1.1 mm, Ponta do Castelo. G1-G2. Acteon semistriatus (Férussac, 1822), DBUA-F 191-9, height 7.3 mm width 3.9 mm, Malbusca. H1-H2. Cylichna sp., DBUA-F 1034-1, height 10.0 mm, width 5.0 mm, Macela viewpoint. I1-I3. Roxania utriculus (Brocchi, 1814), DBUA-F 1027-2, height 8.2 mm, width 4.5 mm, Malbusca II. J1-J2. Scaphander lignarius (Linnaeus, 1758), height 27.0 mm, width 15.5 mm, unknown locality, LNEG collection (unnumbered). K1-K2. Pyrgostylus cf. abreui (Peñas & Rolán, 2000), DBUA-F 471-2, height 6.0 mm, width 3.0 mm, Ponta do Castelo. L1-L3. Clathrella clathrata (Philippi, 1844), DBUA-F 471-1, height 6.0 mm, width 7.0 mm, Ponta do Castelo. M, N. Ranella bicoronata Bronn, 1862 species inquirenda, height 19.0 mm, width 15.0 mm, Pinheiros (figure M taken from Bronn in Reiss, 1862, pl. 1, fig. 8 and figure N taken from Mayer, 1864, pl. 7, fig. 53).