Turricula javana ( Linnaeus, 1767 )

Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Cuny, Gilles, Kocsis, László, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Ngamnisai, Nom, Charoentitirat, Thasinee, Kumpitak, Satapat & Suraprasit, Kantapon, 2024, Mid-Holocene marine faunas from the Bangkok Clay deposits in Nakhon Nayok, the Central Plain of Thailand, ZooKeys 1202, pp. 1-110 : 1-110

Turricula javana ( Linnaeus, 1767)

Figs 4 I , 8 C

Murex javanus Linnaeus, 1767: 1221. Type locality: Java.

Turricula (Vulpecula) javana . Tesch 1915: 48 – 49, pl. 80, fig. 104 a, b.

Turricula javana . Powell 1969: 235 – 237, pl. 192, figs 10, 11; pl. 201, fig. 11. Tantanasiriwong 1978: 17. Nateewathana et al. 1981: 61. Way and Purchon 1981: 320. Poutiers 1998 b: 630, with in-text figs. Swennen et al. 2001: 57, 133, fig. 463. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 104. Robba et al. 2003: tables 3, 5. Robba et al. 2004: 136, pl. 18, fig. 8 a, b. Dharma 2005: 130, pl. 40, fig. 8 a, b. Thach 2005: 214, pl. 59, fig. 16; pl. 60, fig. 24. Ramakrishna et al. 2007: 15, 133, 134. Robba et al. 2007: 93 (appendix). Nabhitabhata 2009: 196. Sanpanich and Duangdee 2013: 60. BEDO 2017 b: 354, with in-text fig. Yang et al. 2017: 114, fig. 472. Surakiatchai et al. 2018: table 5, pl. 1, fig. 11 a, b. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1. Wells et al. 2021: 101.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - G 15, G 20 (53 shells; Figs 4 I , 8 C ).

Habitat.

Intertidal sand and rocks and muddy bottoms at a depth from 20 to 80 m ( Robba et al. 2004; Thach 2005).

Distribution.

Indian Ocean; Indo-West Pacific, from Japan to Australia ( Robba et al. 2004; Yang et al. 2017). Records of fossils from the Late Miocene to Holocene in India, Indonesia, and Thailand ( Robba et al. 2004; Surakiatchai et al. 2018).

Record in Thailand.

Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea ( Wells et al. 2021).

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species is recognised based on the descriptions and figures in Powell (1969) and Robba et al. (2004), specifically in having an elongate-fusiform shell with the sculpture of oblique nodes on the peripheral angulation and finer spiral cords over the shoulder slope as well as a twin cord forming a weak subsutural margin. See also comprehensive taxonomic remarks in Powell (1969).

Figures

Figure 4. Size comparison of gastropods found in this study A Brunneifusus ternatanus B Murex trapa C Indothais lacera D Pristiterebra miranda E Chicoreus capucinus F Indothais gradata G Ellobium aurisjudae H Inquisitor vulpionis I Turricula javana J Architectonica perdix K Pseudoneptunea varicosa L Cassidula nucleus M Pseudoetrema fortilirata N Paradrillia melvilli O Duplicaria tricincta P Granuliterebra bathyrhaphe Q Comitas ilariae R Cylichna modesta S Maoritomella vallata.

Figure 8. Gastropods A Indothais lacera B Murex trapa C Turricula javana D Inquisitor vulpionis E Pristiterebra miranda F Granuliterebra bathyrhaphe.