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Varicospira Spinifera

Stromboidea

• Rimellidae
  • Varicospira
    • Varicospira spinifera (Martin, 1899)

Locus typicus: Menengteng Gorge, Waled, Ceribon, Java, Indonesia

Stratum typicum: Pliocene

Dientomochilus cancellatus spiniferus (Martin, 1899) in Leloux & Wesselingh, 2009, Syntypes; Pliocene; Menengteng Gorge, Waled, Ceribon, Java, Indonesia; Coll. Naturalis RGM 10304 a, b, Copyright Naturalis

Rimella cancellata spinifera; Java, Indonesia; Coll. Naturalis

Rimella cancellata spinifera; Java, Indonesia; Coll. Naturalis ST 46426, Copyright Naturalis

• Remark: The name on the label "spicufera" is a misinterpretation of the handwritten "spinifera"

Rimella cancellata spinifera; Java, Indonesia; Coll. Naturalis ST 46426, Copyright Naturalis

• Remark: The name on the label "spicufera" is a misinterpretation of the handwritten "spinifera"

Varicospira cf. spinifera (Martin, 1899); Noil Tobe, Timor; Coll. BM(NH) G.51678-81

Varicospira spinifera (Martin, 1899); Upper Miocene or Pliocene; North Borneo, Sg. Togopi, Dent Peninsula; ex coll. E. Wenk, 1937, Coll. Naturhistorisches Museum Basel NMB H14411, Photo Virgilio Liverani, from Cox, 1948

Varicospira cf. spinifera; age unknown, Pliocene?; Obi Island, mouth of Kali Wai Lower, Indonesia; 29,75 mm; Coll. ZMA, ex Coll. H.Th. de Booy, collected 1/1928, Photo Ron Voskuil

Varicospira cf spinifera (Martin, 1899); Upper Pliocene; "Solo River", Sangiran, Java, Indonesia; Coll. Elmar Mai

1. 30,6 mm
2. 30,6 mm

I am missing literature for proper identification. Both specimen differ in several characters:

• lirae in the aperture
• teeth at the anterior end of the shell
• posterior chanal