Alexander Stalennuy

• Biodiversity Journal, 6 (1): 087-094

  Maurizio Forli, Alexander Stalennuy & Bruno Dell’Angelo
  Reports of Haliotis Linnaeus, 1758 (Mollusca Vetigastropoda) from the Middle Miocene of Ukraine

  ABSTRACT
  Two species of Haliotidae are described and illustrated from the Maksymivka quarry near Ternopil (Ukraine), a site characterized by its peculiar Middle Miocene (Badenian) coralgal facies. The first species, Haliotis volhynica Eichwald, 1829, has a wide geographical distribution that extends from the Paratethys of Central Europe to the Ukraine, and is quite common in the Maksymivka site. Another different species of Haliotis Linnaeus, 1758 was recently found at Maksymivka, only two specimens in several years of research. This species was already reported by Krach (1981) from Poland as Haliotis tuberculata tauroplanata Sacco, 1897, a species from the Burdigalian of Piedmont that differs from the Maksymivka species by several characters. We leave this rare species indeterminate at specific level because of the scarcity of material known to date.

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