Revealing the stygobiotic and crenobiotic molluscan biodiversity hotspot in Caucasus: Part I. The phylogeny of stygobiotic Sadlerianinae Szarowska, 2006 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from Georgia with descriptions of five new genera and twenty-one new species
Author
Grego, Jozef
Horna Micina 219, 97401, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Author
Mumladze, Levan
Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Kakutsa Cholokashvili Ave 3 / 5, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2172-6973
Author
Falniowski, Andrzej
Department of Malacology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 9, 30 - 387, Krakow, Poland
Author
Osikowski, Artur
Department of Animal Reproduction, Anatomy and Genomics, University of Agriculture in Krakow, al. Mickiewicza 24 / 28, 30 - 059, Krakow, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6646-2687
a.osikowski@urk.edu.pl
Author
Rysiewska, Aleksandra
Department of Malacology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 9, 30 - 387, Krakow, Poland
Author
Palatov, Dimitry M.
Department of Hydrobiology, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, 1 - 12 Leninskie Gory, 119991, Moscow, Russian Federation
Author
Hofman, Sebastian
Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 9, 30 - 387, Krakow, Poland
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ZooKeys
2020
955
1
77
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.955.51983
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.955.51983
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Genus
Hausdorfenia Grego & Mumladze
gen. nov.
Type species.
Hausdorfenia pseudohauffenia
Grego & Mumladze, sp. nov.
Species assigned to the genus.
Hausdorfenia shareula
Grego & Mumladze, sp. nov.
Diagnosis.
The new genus differs from
Pontohoratia
Vinarski, Palatov &
Gloeer
, 2014 by its flatter shell shape, more coarsely pitted protoconch and by its operculum with a distinct peg on its inner side. The molecular data support the closest relationship is to the genus
Kartvelobia
gen. nov.; however, its valviform shell shape is substantially different from the elongate oval shape and aperture morphology of its relative.
Etymology.
Name derived from Bernhard Hausdorf, Hamburg University (Germany), who contributed much to the study of
Mollusca
from whole Caucasus region.
Distribution.
Known from the karstic plateau of Shaori (შაორის
კარსტული
პლატო
) and adjacent stygobiotic habitats (Fig.
15
).