Potamides

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 : 204

quinquecinctus. Potamides . Ionesi & Vele, 1981

see Potamides disjunctus (J. de C. Sowerby, 1832)

* Potamides disjunctus quinquecinctus n. ssp. — Ionesi & Vele 1981: 132, pl. 4, figs 1–8.

Type material. Holotype. 41732, Col. Ionesi et Vele, Museum of Paleontology , University of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” IaȘi ( Romania), Văleni ( Romania), Sarmatian (Volhynian), illustrated in Ionesi & Vele (1981: pl. 4, fig. 1).

Type locality. Văleni ( Romania) .

Stratigraphy. Middle Miocene, Sarmatian (Volhynian).

Discussion. This taxon is based on specimens of Potamides disjunctus with a weak spiral cord at the abapical suture. This morph co-occurs with typical P. disjunctus and quadricinctus -morphs.

Eastern Paratethys. Sarmatian, Volhynian (Middle Miocene): Moldavian Platform: Lupăria ( Moldova), Văleni ( Romania) ( Ionesi & Vele 1981; Ionesi 2006).