Teremitra

Kantor, Yuri, Lozouet, Pierre, Puillandre, Nicolas & Bouchet, Philippe, 2014, Lost and found: The Eocene family Pyramimitridae (Neogastropoda) discovered in the Recent fauna of the Indo-Pacific, Zootaxa 3754 (3), pp. 239-276 : 268

Teremitra ? hortensis (Vinassa de Regny, 1898) comb. nov.

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Cerithium hortense Vinassa de Regny, 1898: 191 [149], pl. 20 [7] fig. 33a–b.

Cerithium rectum Vinassa de Regny, 1898: 192 [150], pl. 20 [7] fig. 34a–b, syn. nov. Cerithium (Lovenella?) hortense Vinassa de Regny—Oppenheim 1901: 206, pl. 20 fig. 7–7a Cerithium (Lovenella?) rectum Vinassa de Regny—Oppenheim 1901: 206, pl. 20 fig. 1–1b. Cerithium hortense Vinassa de Regny—Boussac 1911: 49, pl. 11 fig. 13.

Locality/Age. Upper Eocene (Priabonian) of France (Aquitaine Basin) and Italy.

Remarks. We only tentatively classify Cerithium hortense in Teremitra . The species does not fit well in Pyramimitra and Vaughanites , the two fossils genera also having columellar plaits, but strongly differing in sculpture. However, we have only observed young specimens of this species. Full adult specimens (see Boussac 1911, pl. 11 fig. 13) have a slender spire and are in fact quite similar to T. efatensis . The two species have a slender spire, three spiral cords forming nodules on spire whorls, and two pronounced columellar plaits. The siphonal canal of T. hortensis is, however, not as short and broad as in T. efatensis .

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FIGURE 2. Overview of fossil and Recent Pyramimitridae. A. Endiatoma quadricincta (Cossmann, 1883), MNHN. F. A 47757, Lower Eocene, France. B – C. Pyramimitra terebraeformis (Conrad, 1848), MNHN. F. J 08748, Middle Eocene, USA. D – E. Pyramimitra quadralirata Dockery, 1977, MNHN. F. A 47750, Middle Eocene, USA. F. Hortia priabonica n. sp., MNHN. F. A 47752, Upper Eocene, France. G. Hortia arriuensis Lozouet, 1999, MNHN. F. A 47751, Upper Oligocene, France. H. Hortia pseudotaranis n. sp., New Caledonia, SL 8.4 mm. I. Hortia macrocephala n. sp., New Caledonia, SL 10.4 mm. J. Hortia paradrillia n. sp., New Caledonia, SL 8.1 mm. K. Hortia marshalli n. sp., New Zealand, SL 10.6 mm. L. Hortia spenceri n. sp., New Zealand, SL 9.0 mm. M. Hortia aotearoa n. sp., New Zealand, SL 9.0 mm. N. Hortia solitaria n. sp., South of Madagascar, SL 6.5 mm. O. Teremitra fallax n. sp., Solomon Islands, SL 11.8 mm. P. Teremitra efatensis (Aubry, 1999), Vanuatu, SL 10.8 mm. Q. Teremitra? hortensis (Vinassa de Regny, 1898), Upper Eocene, France. R. Teremitra sp., Taiwan, SL 16 mm. S. Vaughanites? superstes n. sp., Philippines, SL 19.1 mm.