Cerithium acriculus, Zhizhchenko, 1934

Harzhauser, Mathias, Guzhov, Aleksandr & Landau, Bernard, 2023, A revision and nomenclator of the Cainozoic mudwhelks (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Batillariidae, Potamididae) of the Paratethys Sea (Europe, Asia), Zootaxa 5272 (1), pp. 1-241 : 165

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5272.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1E54F7B0-76B1-4E66-8EB0-32685D378D08
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A73336-9187-F6FE-FF5D-FF754998FD87
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Cerithium acriculus
status

Treatment

acriculus . Cerithium . Zhizhchenko, 1934

see Theodisca cicur ( Zhizhchenko, 1934)

* Cerithium acriculus Zhizhchenko — Zhizhchenko 1934: 66, pl. 9, fig. 20.

Type material. Nr. 161/11330, (no information on size), TSNIGR Museum, St. Petersburg. Earlier under Nr. 42163 in Karpinsky Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences , Moscow. Illustrated in Zhizhchenko 1934 (pl. 9, fig. 20) and 1936 (pl. 20, figs 29–30) .

Type locality. Benoi ( Russia) .

Stratigraphy. Middle Miocene, early Chokrakian.

Discussion. This species is based on a strongly eroded specimen. It is treated as synonym of Theodisca cicur ( Zhizhchenko, 1934) .

Eastern Paratethys. Early Chokrakian (Middle Miocene): Ciscaucasia: Benoi, Elistanzhi River, Roshnya River (Chechnya, Russia).