A record of Viviparus syriacus (Gastropoda: Viviparidae) in Turkey Author Georgiev, Dilian , Peter Glöer & Department of Ecology and Environmental Conservation, University of Plovdiv, Tzar Assen Str. 24, BG- 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria, email: diliangeorgiev @ abv. bg diliangeorgiev@abv.bg Author Glöer, Peter Biodiversity Research Laboratory, Schulstrasse 3, D- 25491 Hetlingen, Germany text ZooNotes 2013 2013-10-21 2013 48 1 3 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.12806784 1313-9916 12806784 Viviparus syriacus ( Pallary, 1939 ) Diagnosis. Shell turreted with three spiral knobby carinae on the periphery of the whorls; on the last whorl two more sub-basal and four to five basal carinae are added; the umbilicus is closed, the mouth has a rounded parietal-palatal angulation ( Pallary 1939 , Starobogatov 1985). Known distribution. Pliocene of Eastern Greece and the Rhodes Island, Pleistocene of Syria , Lebanon , Israel ( Pallary, 1939 , Starobogatov, 1985). Material examined. Four shells, D. Georgiev leg.: 2 spec. coll. D. Georgiev , 2 spec. coll. P. Glöer ( Fig.1 ), 14.08.2009 , the Asi Nehri River north of Antioch town , N36 14 54.0 E36 11 59.3 , 127 m alt ( Fig. 2 ) .