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 : 208

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scientific name	Potamides
status

Treatment

semilaevigata. Potamides View in CoL View at ENA . K.A. Ali-Zade, 1940

see Theodisca azerbajdjanica (K.A. Ali-Zade, 1940)

* Potamides azerbajdjanicus Alz. var. semilaevigata View in CoL n. var. — Ali-Zade 1940: 39, pl. 1, figs 15–19.

Type material. Lectotype designated herein: specimen illustrated in Ali-Zade (1954: pl. 12, fig. 28), no size given. Museum at Moscow State University ( The Museum of Natural History ).

Type locality. Taribani Steppe area ( Georgia)

Stratigraphy. Late Pliocene/Pleistocene, Akchagylian.

Discussion. This taxon represents a morph of Theodisca azerbajdjanica (K.A. Ali-Zade, 1940) with smooth late teleoconch whorls.

Eastern Paratethys. Akchagylian (Late Pliocene/Pleistocene): Caspian Basin: Nazarlebi Mountains, Taribani Steppe area ( Georgia) ( Ali-Zade 1954).