Teretia Norman, 1888

Ortega, José Rafael & Gofas, Serge, 2019, The unknown bathyal of the Canaries: new species and new records of deep-sea Mollusca, Zoosystema 41 (26), pp. 513-551 : 540

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a26

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3728464

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scientific name

Teretia Norman, 1888
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Genus Teretia Norman, 1888 View in CoL

Teretia Norman, 1888: 8 View in CoL .

Azorilla Nordsieck, 1968: 184 View in CoL , n. syn.

TYPE SPECIES. — Pleurotoma teres Reeve, 1844 , see discussion below.

REMARKS

Teretia was proposed as an emendation of Teres Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883 (preoccupied by Teres Boettger, 1878, a clausilid land-snail), and later used as a substitute name. Bucquoy, Dautzenberg and Dollfus fixed Pleurotoma anceps Eichwald, 1830 , as the type species of Teres, but they used the name P.anceps for a Recent Mediterranean species and listed “ Pleurotoma teres Forbes (non Reeve)” in its synonymy. Pleurotoma teres Reeve, 1844 , was established for the Recent species, and Forbes is generally considered to have properly applied Reeve’s name, whereas P. anceps Eichwald, 1830 , is a distinct Miocene species from eastern Europe ( Janssen 1984; Bałuk 2003; Brunetti & Vecchi 2003). The name Teres Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883 is therefore based on a misidentified type species and a type species should be fixed under ICZN Art. 70.3.2. Hereby we select Pleurotoma teres Reeve, 1844 as type species of Teres Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883 and its substitute Teretia Norman, 1888 .

Horro & Rolán (2017) assigned to Teretia several species, among which Teretia strongyla ( Dall, 1927) and called attention on the peculiar microsculpture of granules which is diagnostic of this genus. Pleurotomella megalembryon , the type species of Azorilla Nordsieck, 1968 ( Fig. 23 View FIG A-F), has this microsculpture and has a protoconch very similar to that of the type species of Teretia ( Fig. 23G, H View FIG ). Pleurotomella megalembryon is perceived as congeneric with Teretia strongyla and consequently we consider Azorilla a subjective junior synonym of Teretia . Bouchet & Warén (1980) already noted that “ P. megalembryon has a sculpture which recalls that of Terelia teres ”. The details of the protoconch sculpture, in both cases with spiral rows of cross-shaped nodules on protoconch 1 and a typical raphitomine sculpture on protoconch 2, are also shared (see Fig. 23 E, H View FIG ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Raphitomidae

Loc

Teretia Norman, 1888

Ortega, José Rafael & Gofas, Serge 2019
2019
Loc

Azorilla

Nordsieck 1968: 184
1968
Loc

Teretia

Norman 1888: 8
1888
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