Telescopium telescopium ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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

Telescopium telescopium ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Figs 3 K , 5 G

Trochus telescopium Linnaeus, 1758: 760. Type locality: unknown.

Telescopium telescopium . Tesch 1920: 58 – 59, pl. 132, fig. 191. Cernohorsky 1972: 61, pl. 13, fig. 6. Brandt 1974: 196, pl. 15, fig. 61. Tantanasiriwong 1978: 7, fig. 69. Nateewathana et al. 1981: 57. Way and Purchon 1981: 315. Houbrick 1991: 291 – 304, figs 1 – 6. Wilson 1993: 133, pl. 15, fig. 21. Bosch et al. 1995: 56 – 57, fig. 186. Nateewathana 1995: 97 – 98, with in-text fig. Poutiers 1998 b: 451, with in-text figs. Subba Rao and Dey 2000: 53. Swennen et al. 2001: 52, 111 – 112, with in-text fig., fig. 295. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 38. Sri-aroon et al. 2004: table 1, fig. 3 - 3. Dharma 2005: 92, pl. 21, fig. 1; 308, pl. 119, fig. 4. Thach 2005: 45, pl. 9, figs 4, 7. Dey 2006: 31 – 32, figs 29 – 32. Ramakrishna et al. 2007: 48 – 49. Lozouet 2008: 284, pl. 87, figs 1, 3. Printrakoon et al. 2008: table 1. Kesavan et al. 2009: 382, with in-text fig. Nabhitabhata 2009: 97. Hamli et al. 2013: tables 2, 3, fig. 2 e. Sanpanich and Duangdee 2013: 54. Dechruksa et al. 2014: fig. 2 h. BEDO 2017 b: 29, with in-text fig. Kantharajan et al. 2017: table 1, fig. 3 - 18. Okutani 2017: 797, pl. 63, fig. 11. Yang et al. 2017: 28, fig. 109. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1. Yadav et al. 2019: table 2, fig. 1 o. Palanisamy et al. 2020: 2, fig. 1 a – d. George et al. 2021: 1532, fig. 2 a, b. Wells et al. 2021: 126.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - G 64 (2 shells; Figs 3 K , 5 G ).

Habitat.

On muddy floors of mangrove forests and intertidal mud flats ( Poutiers 1998 b; Okutani 2017).

Distribution.

Indian Ocean; Indo-West Pacific, from Japan to India ( Poutiers 1998 b; Okutani 2017; Palanisamy et al. 2020). Records of fossils from the Miocene to Quaternary in Indonesia ( Tesch 1920; Dharma 2005).

Record in Thailand.

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

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species is recognised by its high conical spire with a broad, rather flat base, and a twisted columella with a strong and central spiral ridge ( Houbrick 1991; Poutiers 1998 b).

Subcohort Hypsogastropoda Ponder & Lindberg, 1997

Superfamily Naticoidea Guilding, 1834

Figures

Figure 3. Size comparison of coral and gastropods found in this study A Oulangia cf. stokesiana B Neripteron violaceum C Nerita articulata D Natica stellata E Natica vitellus F Homalopoma cf. sangarense G Eunaticina papilla H Ergaea walshi I Pirenella incisa J Scalptia scalariformis K Telescopium telescopium L Merica elegans M Cerithidea obtusa N Bufonaria rana O Nassarius micans P Nassarius siquijorensis Q Paratectonatica tigrina.

Figure 5. Coral and gastropods A Oulangia cf. stokesiana B Homalopoma cf. sangarense C Neripteron violaceum D Nerita articulata E Cerithidea obtusa F Pirenella incisa G Telescopium telescopium.