Brunneifusus ternatanus ( Gmelin, 1791 )

Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Cuny, Gilles, Kocsis, László, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Ngamnisai, Nom, Charoentitirat, Thasinee, Kumpitak, Satapat & Suraprasit, Kantapon, 2024, Mid-Holocene marine faunas from the Bangkok Clay deposits in Nakhon Nayok, the Central Plain of Thailand, ZooKeys 1202, pp. 1-110 : 1-110

Brunneifusus ternatanus ( Gmelin, 1791)

Figs 4 A , 7 B

Murex ternatanus Gmelin, 1791: 3554. Type locality: Ternate Island, North Maluku, Indonesia.

Pugilina ternatana . Tantanasiriwong 1978: 15. Nateewathana et al. 1981: 60. Poutiers 1998 b: 586, with in-text figs.

Hemifusus ternatanus . Yokoyama 1927: 393. Way and Purchon 1981: 318. Swennen et al. 2001: 56, 130, fig. 445. Gemert 2003: 106, with in-text fig. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 88. Robba et al. 2004: 122 – 123, pl. 16, fig. 7 a, b. Dharma 2005: 108, pl. 29, fig. 2 a, b; 316, pl. 123, fig. 7 a, b. Robba et al. 2007: 93 (appendix). Nabhitabhata 2009: 162. Sanpanich and Duangdee 2013: 61. BEDO 2017 b: 288, with in-text fig. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1.

Brunneifusus ternatanus . Dekkers 2018: 41 – 42, pl. 2, figs 5, 6. Alf and Thach 2021: pl. 1, figs 1 – 9, pl. 2, figs 1 – 3. Wells et al. 2021: 97.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - G 21, G 22 (71 shells; Figs 4 A , 7 B ).

Habitat.

Mud and muddy sand bottoms from the low tide mark to ~ 10–50 m depth ( Poutiers 1998 b; Swennen et al. 2001; Dekkers 2018).

Distribution.

Eastern Indian Ocean; Indo-West Pacific, from Taiwan to Indonesia and the Philippines ( Poutiers 1998 b; Robba et al. 2004). Records of fossils from the Pliocene and Quaternary in Indonesia, Japan, and Taiwan ( Robba et al. 2004; Dharma 2005).

Record in Thailand.

Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea ( Wells et al. 2021).

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species is the sole member of the genus Brunneifusus , characterised by a determinate outer lip, compared to the indeterminate growth of the outer lip in Hemifusus Swainson, 1840 ( Alf and Thach 2021). See also comprehensive taxonomic remarks in Alf and Thach (2021).

Figures

Figure 4. Size comparison of gastropods found in this study A Brunneifusus ternatanus B Murex trapa C Indothais lacera D Pristiterebra miranda E Chicoreus capucinus F Indothais gradata G Ellobium aurisjudae H Inquisitor vulpionis I Turricula javana J Architectonica perdix K Pseudoneptunea varicosa L Cassidula nucleus M Pseudoetrema fortilirata N Paradrillia melvilli O Duplicaria tricincta P Granuliterebra bathyrhaphe Q Comitas ilariae R Cylichna modesta S Maoritomella vallata.

Figure 7. Gastropods A Pseudoneptunea varicosa B Brunneifusus ternatanus C Nassarius micans D Nassarius siquijorensis E Chicoreus capucinus F Indothais gradata.