Turritella pulchra Friedberg, 1909

Harzhauser, Mathias & Landau, Bernard, 2019, Turritellidae (Gastropoda) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea with considerations about turritellid genera, Zootaxa 4681 (1), pp. 1-136 : 107-108

Turritella pulchra Friedberg, 1909

* Turritella pulchra mihi — Friedberg, 1909: 261, pl. 3, fig. 14.

Turritella pulchra Friedb. — Friedberg, 1914: 347, pl. 20, fig. 12.

non Turritella (Torculoidella) subangulata var. pulchra ( Friedberg, 1909) — Kojumdgieva in Kojumdgieva & Strachimirov, 1960: 114, pl. 32, figs 10–11.

non Turritella ( Haustator ?) pulchra Friedbg. — Sieber, 1960: 247.

non Torculoidella pulchra (Friedberg) — Atanacković, 1969: 198, pl. 9, figs 4–4a.

non Turritella (Archimediella) pulchra Friedberg — Tiţă, 2007: 548, fig. 6/d.

non Turritella subangulata pulchra— Ganić et al., 2016: 207 .

Discussion. Based on fragments of a small, moderately slender species with weak angulation below mid-whorl and delicate spiral sculpture. Kojumdgieva in Kojumdgieva & Strachimirov (1960) suggested a relation with Oligodia spirata ( Brocchi, 1814) . This might be correct for the syntypes illustrated in Friedberg (1909) but the shallow lateral sinus of the specimen illustrated in Friedberg (1914) contradicts this identification.

The name Turritella pulchra Friedberg, 1909 is potentially problematic. Only four years before Friedberg (1909), Sowerby (1905) established Protoma (Protomella) pulchra for an extant South African species, which is currently considered a junior synonym of Turritella capensis Krauss, 1848 ( Vos & Sartori 2015).

Distribution. Central Paratethys. Badenian (middle Miocene): Carpathian Foreland Basin: Dryszczów (Nadrichne) Ukraine ( Friedberg 1909).