Potamides melanopsiformis (Auinger) Friedberg, 1914

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 : 191

melanopsiformis . Potamides . Friedberg, 1914

see Pustulosia submitralis ( Eichwald, 1851)

* Potamides melanopsiformis Auing. (in coll.)— Friedberg 1914: 281, pl. 27, figs 15–17.

Type material. Lectotype designated herein: ZNG PAN A-I-50/683.1, SL: 21.5 mm, MD: 8.0 mm, illustrated in Friedberg (1914, pl. 17, fig. 15), stored in the Geological Museum of the Institute of Geological Sciences , Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków ( Poland).

Type locality. Małoszów ( Poland) .

Stratigraphy. Middle Miocene, Badenian.

Discussion. This taxon seems to represent an aberrant morph of Pustulosia submitralis ( Eichwald, 1851) with predominant beads at the adapical suture but ‘ bicinctum -like’ sculpture below. Some specimens listed in the literature may rather represent Tiaracerithium pictum (de Basterot, 1825) (e.g., Papp 1954).

Central Paratethys. Badenian (Middle Miocene): Polish-Ukrainian Fore-Carpathian Basin: Małoszów, Miechocin ( Poland), Zboriv (Ternopil Region, Ukraine) ( Friedberg 1938a); Vienna Basin: Baden-Sooss, Berndorf (St. Veit an der Triesting) ( Austria) ( Sieber 1937); Oberpullendorf Basin: Ritzing ( Austria) ( Papp 1952); Klagenfurt Basin: Lavam̧nd, M̧hldorf ( Austria) ( Papp 1952); Pannonian Basin: Hidas, Várpalota ( Hungary) ( Strausz 1966); Samobor ( Croatia) ( Pavlovsky 1960).