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.