Potamides comroicus, K. A. Ali-Zade, 1940

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 : 171-172

comroicus . Potamides . Ali-Zade, 1940

see Potamides caspius Andrussow, 1902

* Potamides comroicus n. sp. — Ali-Zade 1940: 37, pl. 1, figs 4–8.

Type material. Lectotype designated herein: specimen illustrated in Ali-Zade (1969: pl. 46, fig. 1), SL: 30.0 mm, MD: 10.2 mm. Ali-Zade (1969: 145) mentioned a lectotype but did not define a specimen. Earth Science Museum at Moscow State University (The Museum of Natural History).

Type locality. Palantekyan Mountain Ridge ( Azerbaijan) .

Stratigraphy. Late Pliocene/Pleistocene, Akchagylian.

Discussion. A variant of the eldaricus -morph of Potamides caspius with subcylindrical teleoconch whorls, relatively slender shell and prominent sculpture of three primary spiral cords with prominent beads and fourth, much weaker spiral cord at abapical suture.

Eastern Paratethys. Akchagylian (Late Pliocene/Pleistocene): Caspian Basin: Naftalan, Eldari Steppe area, Palantekyan Mountain Ridge ( Azerbaijan) ( Ali-Zade 1969); Danata, Small Balkhan ( Turkmenistan) ( Ali-Zade 1967).