Contortia saccoi ( Hoernes & Auinger, 1890 ) Harzhauser & Landau, 2012

Harzhauser, Mathias & Landau, Bernard, 2012, A revision of the Neogene Cancellariid Gastropods of the Paratethys Sea 3472, Zootaxa 3472, pp. 1-71 : 25

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5257374

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scientific name

Contortia saccoi ( Hoernes & Auinger, 1890 )
status

comb. nov.

Contortia saccoi ( Hoernes & Auinger, 1890) View in CoL nov. comb.

Figs 6A 1–A 3, 6B 1–B 3

Cancellaria Bellardii Micht. View in CoL —Hörnes 1854: 314, pl. 34, fig. 17 [non Cancellaria Bellardii Michelotti, 1847 View in CoL ].

Cancellaria Saccoi Hoernes & Auinger 1890: 274 View in CoL pars.

Cancellaria Saccoi Hoern. et Auing. View in CoL —Hoernes 1890: 131.

Cancellaria saccoi Hö. Au. View in CoL — Boettger 1902: 38.

Admete (Bonellitia) evulsa Sol. — Janoschek 1932: 76 [non Cancellaria evulsa Solander View in CoL in Brander, 1766].

Admete (Bonellitia) evulsa Sol. — Sieber 1936: 100 pars [non Cancellaria evulsa Solander View in CoL in Brander, 1766].

Bonellitia evulsa (Sol.) View in CoL — Sieber 1956: 245 [non Cancellaria evulsa Solander View in CoL in Brander, 1766].

Cancellaria (Bonellitia) evulsa taurinia Sacco — Csepreghy-Meznerics 1969a: 93, pl. 5, figs 35, 36.

Cancellaria (Merica) fenestrata Eichwald View in CoL — Csepreghy-Meznerics 1972: 31, pl. 14, figs 17, 19 [non Cancellaria fenestrata Eichwald 1830 View in CoL ].

Cancellaria (Merica) contorta saccoi Hoernes & Auinger, 1890 View in CoL — Janssen 1972: 38, pl. 8, fig. 3.

Type material. NHM Vienna ( Austria); see below for details .

Studied material. 2 spec. Gainfarn-Enzesfeld (mixed lot) ( Austria) NHMW 1851 View Materials /0013/0056.

Illustrated material. Figs 6A 1–A 3: specimen illustrated in Hörnes (1854, pl. 34, figs 17a–b), Gainfarn or Enzesfeld ( Austria), height: 27.7 mm, width: 17.9 mm, NHMW 1851 View Materials /0013/0056, lectotype designated by Janssen (1972) .

Figs 6B 1–B 3: Gainfarn or Enzesfeld ( Austria), height: 26.0 mm, width: 16.9 mm, NHMW 1851 View Materials /0013/0056, paralectotype designated by Janssen (1972) .

Discussion. This species was placed in Merica (as subgenus) by Janssen (1972); the presence of varices and the distinct axial sculpture, however, suggest a placement in Contortia . Janssen (1972) recognised the quite different morphologies of the specimens to which Hoernes and Auinger (1890) referred to when defining their Cancellaria saccoi . Consequently he designated the specimen illustrated as fig. 17 in Hörnes (1854, pl. 34) as lectotype and defined two additional paralectotypes. This species is characterised by its slightly scalate spire, angular whorls, oblique sutural ramp and the conspicuous varices on the last whorl. Its sculpture consists of delicate spiral threads, which are uniform on the sutural ramp but separated into primary, secondary and tertiary threads on the flank and the base. The spiral sculpture crosses the moderately prominent axial ribs without weakening. The columella bears two strong, slightly oblique and close-spaced folds and a weak third one bordering the narrow siphonal canal. No umbilicus is developed; outer lip thickened by a varix and semicircular with very delicate lirae within.

It differs from C. tortoniana ( Sacco, 1894) distinctly in its lower spire and bulbous last whorl. Two strong columellar folds in C. saccoi are opposed by three folds in C. tortoniana . Landau et al. (2006) erroneously placed this species in the synonymy of Admetula serrata ( Bronn, 1831) .

Distribution. Only known from the Badenian of the Paratethys.

Paratethys —Badenian: Vienna Basin ( Austria: Gainfarn, Enzesfeld, Steinebrunn, Bad Vöslau, Baden–Sooss, Baden, Möllersdorf); Eisenstadt–Sopron Basin ( Austria: Walbersdorf); Styrian Basin ( Austria: Ritzing); Transylvanian Basin ( Romania: Lăpugiu de Sus, CoŞteiu de Sus).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Cancellariidae

Genus

Contortia

Loc

Contortia saccoi ( Hoernes & Auinger, 1890 )

Harzhauser, Mathias & Landau, Bernard 2012
2012
Loc

Cancellaria (Merica) fenestrata

Csepreghy-Meznerics, I. 1972: 31
1972
Loc

Cancellaria (Merica) contorta saccoi

Janssen, A. W. 1972: 38
1972
Loc

Cancellaria (Bonellitia) evulsa taurinia

Csepreghy-Meznerics, I. 1969: 93
1969
Loc

Bonellitia evulsa (Sol.)

Sieber, R. 1956: 245
1956
Loc

Admete (Bonellitia) evulsa

Sieber, R. 1936: 100
1936
Loc

Admete (Bonellitia) evulsa

Janoschek, R. 1932: 76
1932
Loc

Cancellaria saccoi Hö. Au.

Boettger, O. 1902: 38
1902
Loc

Cancellaria Saccoi Hoernes & Auinger 1890: 274

Hoernes, R. & Auinger, M. 1890: 274
1890
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