Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda. Part 2
Author
Neubauer, Thomas A.
Author
Harzhauser, Mathias
Author
Kroh, Andreas
Author
Elisavet, Georgopoulou
Author
Mandic, Oleg
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.429.7420
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.429.7420
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Taxon classification Animalia ORDO FAMILIA
Pseudamnicola minima (
Lorenthey
, 1893) non (Fuchs, 1877)
Cyclostoma
(?) minima
Lorenthey
, 1893: 211, 306, pl. 4, fig. 1.
Hydrobia (Pannona) minima
Loerent
. sp.,
Lorenthey
1902
: 230, pl. 16, figs 9-11.
Amnicola (Amnicola) minima
(
Lorenthey
);
Wenz 1926
: 2068.
Pseudamnicola (Pseudamnicola) minima
(
Lorenthey
);
Papp 1953
: 117, pl. 7, fig. 10.
Type locality.
Șimleu
Silvaniei (=
Szilagy-Somlyo
),
Sălaj
, Romania.
Age.
Late Miocene (Middle Pannonian, Serbian).
Type material.
No storage or types indicated; probably stored in the Hungarian Geological Institute, Budapest.
Discussion.
Both involved taxa were originally combined with different genera, but have been attributed to
Pseudamnicola
in the second half of the 20th century.
Lorenthey's
species was recombined with
Amnicola
by
Wenz (1926
), based on overall shell morphology. Because an attribution of a European species to this North American genus is relatively doubtful (
Paulucci 1878
,
Wenz 1938-1944
),
Papp (1953)
recombined this species with
Pseudamnicola
.
Valvata minima
Fuchs, 1877, described from the Pliocene of Megara (
Fuchs 1877
, p. 14, pl. 1, figs 25-27), was recombined with
Pseudamnicola
by
Willmann (1981
, p. 212). This would make
Pseudamnicola minima
(
Lorenthey
, 1893) a secondary homonym of
Pseudamnicola minima
(Fuchs, 1877). However, as pointed out by
Haszprunar (2014)
,
Valvata minima
Fuchs, 1877 is a primary homonym of
Valvata minima
Hislop, 1859 from the Tertiary of East India and is thus not available (for replacement name see above).
Lorenthey's
species consequently is no secondary homonym and needs no replacement name. Anyway, the generic classification of neither species appears to be settled. Several species of the Miocene of Central and Southeastern Europe previously attributed to
Pseudamnicola
have been shown lately not to belong to this genus (
Neubauer et al. 2013b
, c).