Revision of the stygobiont gastropod genera Plagigeyeria Tomlin, 1930 and Travunijana Grego & Glöer, 2019 (Mollusca; Gastropoda; Moitessieriidae and Hydrobiidae) in Hercegovina and adjacent regions
Author
Grego, Jozef
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Horná Mičiná, SK- 97401 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.
jozef.grego@gmail.com
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-07-27
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Plagigeyeria lewarnei
sp. nov.
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Figs 9D
,
11B
Type material
Holotype
BOSNIA
AND HERCEGOVINA • 1 shell;
Republika Srpska
,
Trebinje Municipality
,
Gorica
,
Vrelo
“Vruljak 1”, sandy sediment taken by SCUBA dive ca
200 m
from the cave entrance (
Fig. 2F
);
42.713736° N
;
18.368096° E
;
280 m
a.s.l.
;
6 Sep. 2009
;
Gergely Balázs.
leg.;
HNHM
MOLL 104176
.
Fig. 9 (next page). A
.
Plagigeyeria erossi
sp. nov.
, Mostar district, Komadinovo Vrelo at right bank of Neretva below Donja Jablanica,
holotype
(HNHM-MOLL- 104166).
B–C
.
P. erossi
sp. nov.
, type locality,
paratypes
(
JG
F0518,
JG
F1122).
D
.
P. lewarnei
sp. nov.
, Trebinje district, Gorica, cave Vruljak,
holotype
(HNHM-MOLL-104176).
E
.
P. listicaensis
sp. nov.
, Široki Brijeg, Bilo Vrelo (Lištica 2),
holotype
(HNHM-MOLL-104168).
F
.
P. listicaensis
sp. nov.
, type locality,
paratype
(
JG
F1250).
G–H
.
P. reischuetzorum
sp. nov.
, Dabarsko Polje, Vrelo Vrijeka.
G
.
Paratype
(HNHM-MOLL-104165).
H
.
Paratype
(
JG
F1173).
I
.
P. reischuetzorum
sp. nov.
, type locality,
holotype
(
NHMW
111678
).
J
.
P. reischuetzorum
sp. nov.
, type locality,
paratype
(
JG
F1158).
K–L
.
Travunijana gloeri
sp. nov.
, Dabarsko Polje, Vrelo Vrijeka.
K
.
Holotype
(HNHM-MOLL-104418).
L
.
Paratype
(
JG
F1340).
Paratypes
BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA
•
1 fragmented
specimen as for holotype; same data;
HNHM
MOLL 105099
/;
Bosnia and Hercegovina
•
7 shells;
Republika Srpska
,
Trebinje Municipality
,
Vrelo
“Tučevac” at right bank of
Trebišnjica River
,
42.714257° N
;
18.303311° E
;
280 m
a.s.l.
;
31 Mar. 2018
;
J. Grego
,
M. Olšavský
,
G. Jakab
and
M. Kováčiková
leg.;
SBMNH 626406
/1 fragmented specimen,
JG
F1336
/6 fragmented specimens
.
Dimensions
Holotype
: H
1.95 mm
;
W
1.32
mm; BH
1.21mm
; BW
1.05 mm
; AH
0.93 mm
; AW
1.05 mm
.
Etymology
Named after Brian Lewarne from The
Devon
Karst Research Society,
Plymouth
UK
, who leads the “Proteus Project” hypogean species conservation project in Trebinje and supported this study by extensive consultancy about karst groundwater circulation on the studied area.
Description
Elongate conical shell
1.95 mm
high with four convex whorls (apex of
holotype
missing) separated with rather weak suture. Shell surface covered by slightly sinuated lamellate axial ribs cross-sected by slightly crenated fine spiral cords. Twelve spiral cords are more prominent at the nepionic whorl forming a cancellate surface. Faint spiral ribs continue through the apex where the axial ribs are missing and slowly fade out at the protoconch covered by malleate structure. Umbilicus narrow slit-like and obscured by the strongly reflexed columellar marginal fold. Expanding trumpet-like reflexed aperture with typically sinuated labral margin adapically forward protruding. The ventral shape of the aperture is oval, protruded against the shell outline and slightly labrally depressed, attached to the body whorl at its columellar side. Peristome blunt and strongly outward reflexed along aperture outline.
Differentiating features
The shell morphology and surface sculpture of the new species are closely related to those of
P. mostarensis
, however the new species differs significantly by its much smaller shell with different shape, by more blunt-rounded apex and by the differently shaped aperture, more protruding at its lower margin. Furthermore the radial malleated cord structure of the first protoconch whorl is weaker in the new species. The new species represents an intermediate between
P. mostarensis
and
P. olsavskyi
by its protruding lateral labral profile, however, it differs from the latter by a more closed umbilicus and different shell surface sculpture and by a more smooth protoconch surface.
Habitat
Only scarce, eroded or fragmented shells have been recovered from the spring and cave sediments of the spring at the right bank of Trebišnjica in Trebinje. This suggests a deep cave habitat remote from the spring head or from the hitherto known cave passages. The cave in the
type
locality drains the karst aquifers north of Trebinje likely from Ljubomirsko Polje (
506 m
a.s.l.).
Distribution
The new species is so-far known only from the
type
locality and from the Vrelo “Tučevac” in Trebinje. Fragments resembling this species were found in sediments of “Sušicka Jama” Estavelle at the border with
Montenegro
.