Turritella bieniaszi Friedberg, 1909

* Turritella Bieniaszi n. sp. — Friedberg, 1909: 263, pl. 3, figs 17–18.

Turritella Bieniaszi Friedb. percincta mihi — Friedberg, 1909: 264, pl. 3, figs 23–24 [non Turritella percincta Sacco, 1895]. Turritella Bieniaszi Friedb. var. carinata mihi — Friedberg, 1909: 264, pl. 3, figs 19–20.

Turritella Bieniaszi Friedb. — Friedberg, 1914: 348, pl. 20, fig. 13.

Turritella Bieniaszi Friedb. var. percincta Friedb. — Friedberg, 1914: 349, pl. 20, fig. 14 [non Turritella percincta Sacco, 1895].

non Turritella Bieniaszi Friedberg — Csepreghy-Meznerics, 1954: 16, pl. 2, fig. 18. non Turritella bienaszi percincta Friedberg aff. — Csepreghy-Meznerics, 1956: 384, pl. 3, figs 3–4. non Turritella (Torculoidella) bieniaszi Friedberg, 1909 — Kojumdgieva in Kojumdgieva & Strachimirov, 1960: 115, pl. 32, figs 12–13. non Turritella bienaszi percincta Friedb. — Csepreghy-Meznerics, 1966: 109. non Turritella (Torculoidella) bieniaszi Friedb. — Rado & Mutiu, 1970: 148, pl. 5, figs 9-11. [= Ptychidia vindobonensis (Hand- mann, 1882)]

Discussion. Turritella bieniaszi and Turritella bieniaszi carinata might be based on extreme morphs of Ptychidia vindobonensis (Handmann, 1882) . Turritella bieniaszi percincta differs from T. bieniaszi in its subquadrate whorls and sculpture of numerous uniform spiral cords. The status of these taxa is unclear.

Distribution. Central Paratethys. Badenian (middle Miocene): Carpathian Foreland Basin: Dryszczów (Nadrichne) Ukraine. The specimens from Hungary and Bulgaria described by Csepreghy-Meznerics (1954, 1956, 1966) and Kojumdgieva in Kojumdgieva & Strachimirov (1960) are surely not conspecific with either of the Ukrainian specimens shown by Friedberg (1909, 1914).