Descriptions of new and little-known land snail taxa from Turkey, and establishment of a new genus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Lauriidae, Enidae and Vitrinidae)
Author
Ruud, A. Bank
Author
Henk P. M. G Menkhorst
Author
Eike Neubert
text
Basteria
2016
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.439745
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439745
Amphiscopus
Westerlund, 1887
Amphiscopus
Westerlund, 1887
: 3, 55. Type species (by subsequent designation of
Westerlund, 1903
: 104):
Pupa
sturmii Küster, 1852
.
This genus is endemic for Turkey. It is composed of
A. sturmii
(Küster, 1852)
(erroneously spelled as
sturmi
by
Zilch [1959: 180 fig. 619]
and
Schileyko [1998b: 211 fig. 260A-C]
),
A. substurmii
(
Retowski, 1886
)
and the below described
A. moolenbeeki
. The anatomy of
A. sturmii
has been described by
Schileyko (1998b: 209-201, fig. 260B- C)
. Welter-Schultes (2012: 177) placed A.
sturmii
as a species in the genus
Chondrula
, whereas he (2012: 194) placed
A. substurmii
(Retowski, 1887)
in the genus
Multidentula
. This is remarkable, as
Amphiscopus
belongs to the tribus Enini, whereas
Chondrula
and
Mutidentula
belong to the tribes Chondrulini and Multidentulini, respectively. Furthermore, Welter-Schultes mentioned that
Imparietula microdon
Schütt, 1995
, is a synonym of
substurmii
, but
microdon
is in reality a close relative of
Pseudochondrula seductilis
(Rossmässler, 1837)
(tribus Enini).
Retowski (1886: 34)
described
substurmii
from deposition of the Black Sea washed ashore the Crimea ("auf das Strandgebiet zwischen Theodosia und Sudak"); it actually lives in Turkey.