<documentID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.39.67799"ID-GBIF-Dataset="d1f04755-9d8f-4cba-b0cb-660f40eaea02"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2615-39-129"ID-Pensoft-UUID="949FA919D03D5786B2FC5FD157ECCCD3"ID-ZooBank="7C135129340D49D48BBDDD8C9AD3C358"ModsDocID="1314-2615-39-129"checkinTime="1628190626879"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Czaja 1, Alexander, Gladstone 2, Nicholas S., Becerra-Lopez 1, Jorge Luis, Estrada-Rodriguez 1, Jose Luis, SaenzMata 1, Jorge & Hernandez-Teran 3, Fernando"docDate="2021"docId="4A8428894DFA5BC0B2C1E995B0CC7C10"docLanguage="en"docName="SubterBiol 39: 129-141"docOrigin="Subterranean Biology 39"docPubDate="2021-08-05"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.39.67799"docTitle="Phreatoviesca Czaja & Gladstone 2021, gen. nov."docType="treatment"docUuid="517E4E3B-915D-4056-A65C-312806C6DB02"docUuidSource="ZooBank"docVersion="4"id="949FA919D03D5786B2FC5FD157ECCCD3"lastPageNumber="129"masterDocId="949FA919D03D5786B2FC5FD157ECCCD3"masterDocTitle="A remarkable new genus and species of subterranean freshwater snail from a recently dried-up spring of Viesca, Coahuila, Northern Mexico"masterLastPageNumber="141"masterPageNumber="129"pageNumber="129"updateTime="1732567016563"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="8C8B1A65E37491CF9B900354DDB6501B">A remarkable new genus and species of subterranean freshwater snail from a recently dried-up spring of Viesca, Coahuila, Northern Mexico</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="29315BCE22BAA449F6B814F37E3F5D21">Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, Av. Universidad s / n, Fraccionamiento Filadelfia, 35010 Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="5AB8B8491CC2F7CA98FCFA87696E6337">Gladstone 2, Nicholas S.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="23E8B6DF3A72F935F2261F949F60AC03">Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, Av. Universidad s / n, Fraccionamiento Filadelfia, 35010 Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="42F6237CEA9E62816CB1BCA1D023CA28">Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, Av. Universidad s / n, Fraccionamiento Filadelfia, 35010 Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="733B193523F9669452AD36AF2E65F2B7">Estrada-Rodriguez 1, Jose Luis</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="D20E6EB6292748B66C361C1ECA15468D">Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, Av. Universidad s / n, Fraccionamiento Filadelfia, 35010 Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="8A9BC7FB1F0D4BD3C51209EF74803E8F">Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, Av. Universidad s / n, Fraccionamiento Filadelfia, 35010 Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="61A747AAB50CE56C2B46A11D9F5D759A">Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Juarez del Estado de Durango, Av. Universidad s / n, Fraccionamiento Filadelfia, 35010 Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico</mods:affiliation>
<taxonomicNameid="3BD253A331A7753F494B0DC8A3467973"ID-CoL="8NDT5"LSID="http://zoobank.org/517E4E3B-915D-4056-A65C-312806C6DB02"authority="Czaja & Gladstone"authorityName="Czaja & Gladstone"authorityYear="2021"class="Gastropoda"family="Cochliopidae"genus="Phreatoviesca"higherTaxonomySource="CoL"kingdom="Animalia"lsidName="Phreatoviesca"order="Littorinimorpha"pageId="0"pageNumber="129"phylum="Mollusca"rank="genus"status="gen. nov.">Phreatoviesca Czaja & Gladstone</taxonomicName>
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Shell small, conical in form, protoconch sculptured with coarsely honeycomb-like pits, teleoconch with curved ribs which are at the carina modified into regularly spaced shovel-shaped spines (Figs
The characteristic combination of three aforementioned shell features (open coiling of the last whorl, shovel-shaped spines, and protoconch with coarsely honeycomb-like pits) separate the new genus clearly from shells of all other subterranean (and epigean) genera. Some members of
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