Paratectonatica tigrina ( Röding, 1798 )

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

Paratectonatica tigrina ( Röding, 1798)

Figs 3 Q , 6 D

Cochlis tigrina Röding, 1798: 147. Type locality: unknown.

Natica tigrina . Tantanasiriwong 1978: 11, fig. 142. Nateewathana et al. 1981: 58. Dheeradilok et al. 1984: pl. 3, figs 9, 10. Wilson 1993: 217, pl. 36, fig. 10. Nateewathana 1995: 98, with in-text fig. Poutiers 1998 b: 514, with in-text figs. Swennen et al. 2001: 54, 121, fig. 369. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 57. Dharma 2005: 176, pl. 63, fig. 14. Ramakrishna et al. 2007: 8, 66 – 67, pl. 4, figs 45, 46. Nabhitabhata 2009: 125. Okutani 2017: 864, pl. 150, fig. 10. Yang et al. 2017: 56, fig. 229. Surakiatchai et al. 2018: table 5, pl. 1, fig. 6 a, b.

Paratectonatica tigrina . Majima 1989: pl. 14, fig. 18. Robba et al. 2003: tables 2 – 5. Robba et al. 2004: 73, pl. 9, fig. 4 a, b. Robba et al. 2007: 91 (appendix). Torigoe and Inaba 2011: 101 – 102, pl. 3, fig. 30. Kang et al. 2018: 357 – 358, 360, fig. 4.

Tectonatica tigrina . Thach 2005: 87, pl. 26, fig. 24.

Notocochlis tigrina . Gopalakrishnan et al. 2012: 73. Sanpanich and Duangdee 2013: 57. BEDO 2017 b: 165, with in-text fig. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1. Yadav et al. 2019: table 2, fig. 1 a. Wells et al. 2021: 84.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - G 03 (70 shells; Figs 3 Q , 6 D ).

Habitat.

Sandy mud in intertidal zones down to 30 m depth ( Thach 2005; Okutani 2017).

Distribution.

India ( Yadav et al. 2019); Indo-West Pacific, from Japan to Australia ( Wilson 1993; Poutiers 1998 b; Okutani 2017). Records of fossils from the Late Miocene to Quaternary in Indonesia and from the Quaternary in Thailand ( Robba et al. 2003, 2004; Surakiatchai et al. 2018).

Record in Thailand.

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

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species is recognised by its tall-spired shell with deeply impressed sutures and spiral rows of reddish-brown spots on a white background ( Poutiers 1998 b; Robba et al. 2004).

Superorder Latrogastropoda Riedel, 2000

Superfamily Calyptraeoidea Lamarck, 1809

Figures

Figure 3. Size comparison of coral and gastropods found in this study A Oulangia cf. stokesiana B Neripteron violaceum C Nerita articulata D Natica stellata E Natica vitellus F Homalopoma cf. sangarense G Eunaticina papilla H Ergaea walshi I Pirenella incisa J Scalptia scalariformis K Telescopium telescopium L Merica elegans M Cerithidea obtusa N Bufonaria rana O Nassarius micans P Nassarius siquijorensis Q Paratectonatica tigrina.

Figure 6. Gastropods A Eunaticina papilla B Natica stellata C Natica vitellus D Paratectonatica tigrina E Ergaea walshi F Bufonaria rana G Merica elegans H Scalptia scalariformis.