Eunaticina papilla ( Gmelin, 1791 )

Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Cuny, Gilles, Kocsis, László, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Ngamnisai, Nom, Charoentitirat, Thasinee, Kumpitak, Satapat & Suraprasit, Kantapon, 2024, Mid-Holocene marine faunas from the Bangkok Clay deposits in Nakhon Nayok, the Central Plain of Thailand, ZooKeys 1202, pp. 1-110 : 1-110

Eunaticina papilla ( Gmelin, 1791)

Figs 3 G , 6 A

Nerita papilla Gmelin, 1791: 3675. Type locality: Tranquebar [ Tharangambadi, Tamil Nadu, India].

Eunaticina papilla . Cernohorsky 1971: 201 – 202, fig. 69. Cernohorsky 1972: 102, pl. 27, fig. 5. Tantanasiriwong 1978: 11, fig. 151. Nateewathana et al. 1981: 58. Way and Purchon 1981: 317. Majima 1989: 68 – 69, pl. 10, fig. 16, text-figs 15.36, 23.1 a – d. Wilson 1993: 223, pl. 36, fig. 7. Bosch et al. 1995: 87, fig. 326. Swennen et al. 2001: 54, 122, fig. 378. Gemert 2003: 105. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 56. Beu et al. 2004: 206, 208 – 211, fig. 22 d – f, h. Robba et al. 2004: 75 – 76, pl. 9, fig. 7 a, b. Dharma 2005: 176, pl. 63, fig. 25 a – d; 342, pl. 136, fig. 12 a, b. Ramakrishna et al. 2007: 9, 69 – 70. Robba et al. 2007: 91 (appendix). Hollmann 2008: 500, pl. 195, figs 1, 2. Nabhitabhata 2009: 123. Beu 2010: 152, fig. 21 a. Torigoe and Inaba 2011: 55 – 56, pl. 2, fig. 17. Gopalakrishnan et al. 2012: 73. Öztürk and Bitlis 2013: 7, with in-text fig. Sanpanich and Duangdee 2013: 56. BEDO 2017 b: 159, with in-text fig. Okutani 2017: 862, pl. 148, fig. 6. Yang et al. 2017: 52, fig. 215. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1. Albano et al. 2021: 12, fig. 5. Wells et al. 2021: 82.

Eunaticina papilla papilla . Thach 2005: 90, pl. 26, figs 3, 5.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - G 19 (5 shells; Figs 3 G , 6 A ).

Habitat.

Fine sandy bottoms in intertidal zones down to 30 m depth ( Robba et al. 2004; Okutani 2017).

Distribution.

Red Sea to Indian Ocean; Indo-West Pacific, from Japan to Australia and Fiji Islands ( Robba et al. 2004; Okutani 2017), as well as the Israeli Mediterranean shelf ( Albano et al. 2021). Several records of fossils during the Late Miocene to Holocene in Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand ( Beu et al. 2004; Robba et al. 2004; Dharma 2005).

Record in Thailand.

Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea ( Wells et al. 2021).

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species is recognised by a regularly oval shell with a small spire and a large body whorl with low and wide spiral cords, which are broader than their interspaces and crossed by prominent axial ridges ( Öztürk and Bitlis 2013). See also comprehensive taxonomic remarks in Beu et al. (2004).

Natica Scopoli, 1777

Figures

Figure 3. Size comparison of coral and gastropods found in this study A Oulangia cf. stokesiana B Neripteron violaceum C Nerita articulata D Natica stellata E Natica vitellus F Homalopoma cf. sangarense G Eunaticina papilla H Ergaea walshi I Pirenella incisa J Scalptia scalariformis K Telescopium telescopium L Merica elegans M Cerithidea obtusa N Bufonaria rana O Nassarius micans P Nassarius siquijorensis Q Paratectonatica tigrina.

Figure 6. Gastropods A Eunaticina papilla B Natica stellata C Natica vitellus D Paratectonatica tigrina E Ergaea walshi F Bufonaria rana G Merica elegans H Scalptia scalariformis.