Textiliomurex Merle, 2011

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/geodiversitas2024v46a15
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13985841
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scientific name	Textiliomurex Merle, 2011
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TYPE SPECIES. — Murex textiliosus Lamarck, 1803 by original designation. Middle Eocene: Paris basin, France and Hampshire Basin, England.

COMMENTS ON THE GENUS

Textiliomurex View in CoL shares similarities with Pterynotus View in CoL (s.s.) and Pterynotus (Pterymarchia) such as a scabrous surface, columellar denticles and a series of internal denticles including ID, D1 to D6. Textiliomurex View in CoL does not display trivaricate axial sculpture and lacks intervarices, usually found in Pterynotus View in CoL (s.s.). The number of varices on the last whorls of Textiliomurex View in CoL is higher (9-11) than in Pterymarchia View in CoL (3-5, see Houart 1995). As with Pterynotus View in CoL , we cannot give a subfamilial placement to this genus. Merle et al. (2011: 127) included six species in the genus. Recently, Lozouet (2023) added (with some doubt) one species from the Chattian of the Aquitaine Basin ( Textiliomurex? problematicus Lozouet, 2023 View in CoL ), and we add a new species from the Lutetian of the Paris Basin herein.