Tervia irregularis (Meneghini, 1844)

Idmonea irregularis Meneghini, 1845: 128 .

Tervia irregularis – Malecki 1963: 71, text-fig. 30; pl. 3, fig. 11. — Vávra 1975: p. 523, pl. 2, figs 3-4. — Harmelin 1976: 163, pl. 26, figs 1-11. — Harmelin & d’Hondt 1982: 9, pl. 3, fig. 4. — Zabala 1986: 656, text-fig. 234. — Moissette 1988: 49, pl. 6, figs 10-12. — Zabala & Maluquer 1988: 174, text-figs 563-568. — Pouyet & Moissette 1992: 25, pl. 1, figs 11-12. — El Hajjaji 1992: p. 48, pl. 2, fig. 10. — Moissette et al. 1993: 85, fig. 3h, l. — Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995: 782, pl. 1, figs 9, 12. — Haddadi-Hamdane 1996: 46, pl. 1, fig. 10, pl. 2, figs 3, 8.

OCCURRENCE. — Eocene: Poland, Hungary, Spain (Malecki 1963). Oligocene: Germany (Malecki 1963). Early Miocene: France (Buge 1957). Middle Miocene: Austria, Hungary (Moissette et al. 2006), France. Late Miocene: Algeria (Moissette 1988), Morocco (El Hajjaji 1992), Crete (Moissette et al. 1993). Pliocene: Netherlands (Lagaaij 1952), Belgium, France, Algeria, Sicily (Pouyet & Moissette 1992). Pleistocene: Rhodes (Moissette & Spjeldnaes 1995), Karpathos (Moissette et al. 2017). Recent. Eastern Atlantic (down to a depth of 2650 m in the Bay of Biscay), Mediterranean (60- 300 m), Pacific, Indian Ocean.

REMARKS

Only a few fragments have been found in two samples. This easily recognizable species is not illustrated here because of the relatively poor preservation state of the rare recovered specimens.