Taranis Jeffreys 1870

• Main Authors: Morassi, Mauro, Bonfitto, Antonio
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Neogastropoda; Raphitomidae; Taranis; Pacific; New Zealand; Esperanza; Malm; Marwick; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6150278; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6150278

Genus Taranis Jeffreys, 1870 (= Fenestrosyrinx Finlay, 1926) Type species: Trophon moerchii Malm, 1861 Remarks: Jeffreys (1870) proposed the genus Taranis for Trophon moerchii Malm, 1861 a recent species described from Sweden. According to Appeltans et al., 2012 (World Register of Marine Species, accessed at http:// www.marinespecies.org) the genus is represented in the recent fauna by 21 species and 2 subspecies with a worldwide distribution. Bouchet & Warén (1980) provided photographs of the type species and other northeast Atlantic Taranis species while the Indo-Pacific members of the genus were treated by Powell (1967). Kilburn (1991) reported the genus Taranis from southern Africa and described new species. Additional “typical” members of the genus Taranis recognized in literature are Taranis aliena (Marwick, 1965) from the Pliocene of New Zealand (Maxwell, 1988; Beu & Maxwell, 1990), T. circumflexa (Hornung, 1920) from the Pliocene-Early Pleistocene of Italy and Spain (Bernasconi & Robba, 1984; Vera-Peláez, 2002; Della Bella & Scarponi, 2007) and T. dellabellai Tabanelli, 1997 from the Pleistocene of Italy (Tabanelli, 1997; Della Bella & Scarponi, 2007). Beu (2011) has recently referred to Taranis the Australian Pliocene Fenestrodaphne pulchra Powell (1944), type species of the genus Fenestrodaphne Powell, 1944, the Recent Daphnella tasmanica Tenison-Woods, 1877 (Tenison-Woods, 1877; Hedley, 1922) and Hemipleurotoma esperanza May, 1911 both from Tasmania, and Daphnella vestalis Hedley, 1903 from Australia (Hedley 1903; 1922; Laseron, 1954). In addition to these species, Micantapex? tomuiensis MacNeil, 1960, from the Miocene or Pliocene Okinawa, resembles members of Taranis in dimensions and sculpture and may prove to belong to this genus. Morphologically Taranis is characterized by species with a minute to small shell sculptured by (usually few) spiral cords crossed by axial ribs, which tend to form small nodules where they crossed the spirals, and a peripheral, very shallow anal sinus. ...