Bufonaria rana ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

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

Bufonaria rana ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Figs 3 N , 6 F

Murex rana Linnaeus, 1758: 748. Type locality: Asiatic Ocean.

Bursa (Bufonaria) rana . Cernohorsky 1972: 119, pl. 32, fig. 8.

Bursa rana . Tantanasiriwong 1978: 12, fig. 170. Nateewathana et al. 1981: 59. Way and Purchon 1981: 317. Swennen et al. 2001: 55, 122, fig. 380.

Bufonaria rana . Wilson 1993: 226, pl. 43, fig. 1 a, b. Aungtonya and Hylleberg 1998: 319. Poutiers 1998 b: 551, with in-text figs. Subba Rao and Dey 2000: 92. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 59. Robba et al. 2004: 76 – 77, pl. 9, fig. 9 a, b. Dharma 2005: 194, pl. 72, fig. 1 a – e; 352, pl. 141, fig. 7 a – c. Ramakrishna et al. 2007: 10, 81, pl. 6, figs 69, 70. Robba et al. 2007: 91 (appendix). Beu 2008: 618, pl. 254, figs 6, 7 a, b. Nabhitabhata 2009: 137. Sanpanich and Duangdee 2013: 58. BEDO 2017 b: 112, with in-text fig. Okutani 2017: 867 – 868, pl. 154, fig. 5. Yang et al. 2017: 64, fig. 266. Harzhauser et al. 2018: 13 – 14, pl. 3, figs 6 – 9. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1. Yadav et al. 2019: table 2, fig. 1 b. Wells et al. 2021: 89.

Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana . Cossignani 1994: 33 – 35, with in-text figs. Bosch et al. 1995: 102, fig. 372. Gemert 2003: 105. Thach 2005: 96, pl. 28, fig. 8.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - G 06, G 07 (18 shells; Figs 3 N , 6 F ).

Habitat.

Muddy or sandy bottoms at a depth from 20 to 100 m ( Okutani 2017; Yang et al. 2017).

Distribution.

Red Sea to Indian Ocean; Indo-West Pacific, from Japan to Australia ( Robba et al. 2004; Okutani 2017; Yadav et al. 2019). Several records of fossils from the Miocene to Quaternary in Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan ( Robba et al. 2004; Dharma 2005; Harzhauser et al. 2018).

Record in Thailand.

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

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species is recognised based on the descriptions and figures in Robba et al. (2004) and Harzhauser et al. (2018), specifically in having two prominent varices placed at either periphery, running vertically uninterrupted, or slightly staggered, from apex to base, and bearing three short spines.

Order Neogastropoda Wenz, 1938

Superfamily Volutoidea Rafinesque, 1815

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.