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Tethystrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) Plate 4 A * Strombus coronatus Defrance 1827: 124. Strombus italicus Duclos — Mayer 1864: 73, pl. 7, fig. 54. Strombus coronatus Defr. —Pereira da Costa 1867: 137, pl. 17, fig. 3. Strombus coronatus Defrance — Fontannes 1879: 151, pl. 9, fig. 1. Strombus coronatus (Defr.) — Sacco 1893: 7, pl. 1, figs. 19-27. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Palla 1967: 959, pl. 72, fig. 2. Strombus (Strombus) coronatus (Defrance, 1827) — Malatesta 1974: 219, pl. 17, figs. 1-7. Strombus coronatus Defrance — Fekih 1975: 111, pl. 33, fig. 1. Strombus (S.) coronatus Defrance — Pavia 1976a, pl. 5, figs. 1-4. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Meco 1977: 56, pl. 14, fig. 2, pl. 15, fig. 2, pl. 16, figs. 1-2, pl. 17, figs. 1-2, pl. 18, figs. 1-2, pl. 19, fig. 1, pl. 20, fig. 1, pl. 21, fig. 1, pl. 22, fig. 1, pl. 23, figs. 1-3, pl. 24, fig. 1, pl. 25, figs. 1-2, pl. 26, fig. 1, pl. 27, figs. 1-2. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Martinell 1979: 123, pl. 3, figs. 5-6. Strombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) — Ferrero Mortara et al. 1984: 138, pl. 21, figs. 6-7. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Cavallo & Repetto 1992: 58, fig. 101. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Solsona 1998: 169, pl. 8, figs. 1-6. Strombus (Strombus) coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Landau et al. 2004a: 63, pl. 14, fig. 6. Strombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) [sic]—Chirli 2008: 6, pl. 2, figs. 1-6. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Chirli & Richard 2008: 24, pl. 3, fig. 7. Strombus coronatus Defrance, 1827 — Sosso & Dell’Angelo 2010: 23, 33, unumbered figure second row left. Strombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) [sic]—Brunetti 2014: 30, unumbered fig. Persististrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) — Ávila et al. 2016b: 915, fig. 2A-H. Persististrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) —Brunetti & Vecchi 2016: 62, pl. 1, fig. A. Persististrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) — Brunetti & Cresti 2018: 50, fig. 130. non Strombus coronatus Defr. —Ĥrnes 1853: 187, pl. 17, fig. 1 [Persististrombus inflexus (Eichwald, 1830)]. non Strombus coronatus Defr. —Hoernes & Auinger (partim) 1884: 163, pl. 18, figs. 4-5, pl. 19. fig. 1 [Persististrombus inflexus (Eichwald, 1830)]. non Strombus coronatus Defr. —Hoernes & Auinger (partim) 1884: 163, pl. 18, figs. 1-3 [Persististrombus lapugyensis (Sacco, 1893)]. non Strombus coronatus Defrance — Strausz 1966: 222, figs. 102-103 [Persististrombus inflexus (Eichwald, 1830)]. non Strombus coronatus Defrance — Schultz 1998: 60, pl. 23, fig. 6 [Persististrombus inflexus (Eichwald, 1830)]. Santa Maria material examined. Maximum height 119.1 mm, width 107.2 mm. Figueiral: CIADP-F 32 (1) Casa dos Fósseis Museum, Santa Maria (collection Dalberto Pombo); DBUA-F 1011 (2), DBUA-F 1236 (1), DBUA-F 533 (1), Malbusca; DBUA-F 928- A (1), Malbusca, Santa Maria Island, Azores, Touril Complex, Lower Pliocene. Discussion. Dekkers (2008) erected the genus Tethystrombus with the West African Strombus latus Gmelin, 1791 as type species. He included in his new genus the European fossil Strombus bubonius Lamarck, 1822 and S. coronatus Defrance, 1827. The ongoing heated discussion as to the phylogeny of this group (i.e., Dekkers, 2008, vs. Kronenberg & Vermeij 2002) will not be entered into here. The presence of Tethystrombus coronatus (Defrance, 1827) in the Santa Maria assemblages and its biogeographic, palaeoecological and palaeoclimatological implications were fully discussed in Ávila et al. (2016b). Distribution. Middle Miocene: Atlantic, Aquitaine Basin (Cossmann & Peyrot 1924), Loire Basin (Glibert 1949). Upper Miocene: Atlantic, Portugal (Pereira da Costa 1867); Proto-Mediterranean, Italy (Sacco 1893). Lower Pliocene: Atlantic, Santa Maria Island, Azores (Ávila et al. 2015b, 2016b, 2018a, 2020a, 2022; Rebelo et al. 2016; Uchman et al. 2017, 2020; Dávid et al. 2021), Madeira and Porto Santo (Mayer 1864), Canary Islands (Meco 1977), Morocco (Lecointre 1952); western Mediterranean, NE Spain, (Martinell 1979; Martinell & Marquina 1981), France (Fontannes 1879; Chirli & Richard 2008); central Mediterranean, Italy (Sacco 1893; Pavia 1976a; Cavallo & Repetto 1992; Chirli 2008; Sosso & Dell’Angelo 2010; Brunetti & Cresti 2018). Upper Pliocene: central Mediterranean, Italy (Brunetti & Vecchi 2016), western Mediterranean, Estepona Basin (Landau et al. 2004a)., Published as part of Sacchetti, Claudia, Landau, Bernard & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2023, The Lower Pliocene marine gastropods of Santa Maria Island, Azores: Taxonomy and palaeobiogeographic implications, pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 5295 (1) on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5295.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7965273, {"references":["Mayer, K. (1864). Die Tertiar-fauna der Azoren und Madeiren. Zurich, published by the author. Z ¸ rich: vi + 107 pp. + 7 pls.","Fontannes, F. (1879 - 1880) Les inverte´bre´s du bassin tertiaire du Sud-Est de la France. Les mollusques plioce`nes de la Valle´edu Rho ˆ ne et du Roussillon. 1. Gaste´ropodes des formations marines et saumatres. Georg, Lyon & F. Savy, Paris, VIII + 276 pp., 12 pls. [pp. 1 - 76 published in 1879, remainder in 1880] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 13209","Sacco, F. (1893). 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In this work, all the Lower Pliocene gastropod assemblages of Santa Maria Island are revised. These all form part of the Touril Complex. Seventy-seven species are identified representing 61 genera. Two species are described as new: Bittium miradouroense nov. sp. and Erato mayeri nov. sp. The name Tritonium secans Bronn in Reiss 1862 is considered a junior subjective synonym of Monoplex comptus (A. Adams, 1855). Pleurotoma perturrita Bronn in Reiss 1862 is considered a junior subjective synonym of Crassopleura maravignae (Bivona, 1838). However, due to the difficulties in collecting from these deposits, this is likely to be a considerable underestimate of the original diversity of local Early Pliocene gastropod faunas. The assemblage reflects a fully tropical with mean annual sea surface temperatures (SSTs) estimated about 3.7°C to 6.3°C higher than the present-day 20.6°C, and with mean monthly SSTs ranging from 20°C to 28°C, with six months with mean SSTs over 24°C. The assemblages all represent relatively shallow water, fully saline marine environments. At genus level the assemblage is typical of that seen in the tropical Mediterranean-West African Palaeobiogeographical Province during the early Pliocene (MPPMU1; roughly equivalent to the Zanclean and earliest Piacenzian). At species level, 35% of the species taxa found in Santa Maria are also found in the Mediterranean during MPPMU1. There is a much weaker association with the northern warm temperate Pliocene Boreal-Celtic Province, with only 17% of species occurring in both. Moreover, most of those are ubiquitous European species with both wide geographic and stratigraphic distributions. The assemblage is relatively endemic (29%) suggesting that the Azorean subprovince/ecoregion, which is recognised today, was already in place in the Lower Pliocene. A small number of tonnoidean species found in Santa Maria are species known to have had an amphiatlantic distribution during the Pliocene, and for Distorsio mcgintyi Emerson & Puffer, 1953, a well-known and widely distributed tropical American Atlantic species from the Early Miocene to present-day, its presence in Santa Maria marks the most easterly range expansion for the species, as today is not found in the Azores.

Subfamily Strombinae Rafinesque, 1815 Genus Tethystrombus Dekkers, 2008 Type species. Strombus latus Gmelin, 1791 (Dekkers 2008: 35), by original designation. Present-day, West Africa., Published as part of Sacchetti, Claudia, Landau, Bernard & Ávila, Sérgio P., 2023, The Lower Pliocene marine gastropods of Santa Maria Island, Azores: Taxonomy and palaeobiogeographic implications, pp. 1-150 in Zootaxa 5295 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5295.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7965273, {"references":["Rafinesque, C. S. (1815) Analyse de la nature ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organiseis. Rafinesque, Palermo, 223 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 106607","Dekkers, A. M. (2008) Revision of the family Strombidae (Gastropoda) on the supraspecific level. Part One. De Kreukel, 44 (3), 35 - 64.","Gmelin, J. F. (1791) Caroli a Linnei systema natura per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, disserentis, synonymis, locis etc. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata, cura J. F. Gmelin. 1 (6). Vermes testacea. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae, pp. 3021 - 4120."]}

The new species of Lichtenstein’s catalog (1794: part 2) were discussed by Geiger (2003). Here a facsimile edition and full translation of the work is given. Additional insights into select Lichtenstein species are provided. Tentative identifications include Mya papyracea Lichtenstein, 1794 as a member of Thraciidae, Helix porphyrostoma Lichtenstein, 1796 from Ambon as a member of Planorbidae and Helix australasiae Lichtenstein, 1794 from Tahiti as a Partula sp. Trochus tahitiensis Lichtenstein, 1794 is here designated as a nomen oblitum with Trochus histrio Reeve, 1861 [1842 in error] as its nomen protectum. Oliva brasiliensis Chemnitz and Murex galea Chemnitz (now Coralliophila galea) were first made available by Lichtenstein (1794), not by Schumacher (1817) and Dillwyn (1823), respectively. Olivancillaria brasiliensis (Lichtenstein, 1794) is senior synonym of O. urceus (Röding, 1798).