Buenia pulvinus van Hinsbergh & Hoedemakers, 2022

Schwarzhans, Werner, 2023, Geology and stratigraphy of the Neogene section along the Oued Beth between Dar bel Hamri and El Kansera (Rharb Basin, northwestern Morocco) and its otolith-based fish fauna: a faunal inventory for the Early, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (4) 142 (1), pp. 1-85 : 36

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scientific name	Buenia pulvinus van Hinsbergh & Hoedemakers, 2022
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Material 9 specimens, Dar bel Hamri, Zanclean (figured specimens SMF PO 101.226 ) .

Discussion Te genus Buenia shows a remarkable diversity in otolith-based taxa in the Pliocene of the Mediterranean ( Schwarzhans et al., 2020; van Hinsbergh & Hoedemakers, 2022). Two of the extant species ( B. affinis Iljin, 1930 , and B. massutii Kovačić, Ordines & Schliewen, 2017 ) have also been recorded as fossils from the Pliocene, in addition to the two extinct species B. pisiformis Schwarzhans et al., 2020 , and B. pulvinus van Hinsbergh & Hoedemakers, 2022 . Van Hinsbergh & Hoedemakers compared B. pulvinus with the extant B. affinis and mentioned the smaller size of the sulcus as the main distinguishing characteristic. Tis characteristic is shared by the Moroccan otoliths, which do not, however, exhibit any postdorsal projection as described by van Hinsbergh & Hoedemakers. I attribute the latter difference to the smaller size of the Moroccan otoliths compared to those from Estepona near Málaga.