New localities of four Bulgarian endemic Hydrobiidae species (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Risooidea)
Author
Georgiev, Dilian
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ZooNotes
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2011-02-04
2011
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.12806660
ff6f3c18-6df8-4c53-9d87-e535c82f5cb8
1313-9916
12806660
Belgrandiella pussila
Angelov, 1959
Distribution in
Bulgaria
:
Species known only from the
type
locality – the source of Petreska River, near Lakatnik town, Stara Planina Mts. (
Angelov 1959
,
2000
).
Material examined:
6 shells (1 fresh, 5 old),
07.03.2010
, Temnata Dupka cave, Lakatnik town, UTM FN96, D. Georgiev leg.
Diagnosis:
The distinctive characters of this species discerning it from the rest of the Bulgarian
Belgrandiella
are the cylindrical shell with obtuse apex and the oval small aperture (
Angelov 1959
). Its shell is smaller and its morphology is very different from these ones of the two other freshwater snails found in this cave (
Wagner 1927
):
Belgrandiella hessei
Wagner, 1927
and
Bythiospeum bureschi
(
Wagner, 1927
)
(=
Paladilhiopsis bureschi
Wagner, 1927
). From the first species it differs by the smaller aperture having a simple lip, cylindrical shell, obtuse apex, and flatter whorls, and from the second – by the smaller number of whorls, having not so deep suture, its cylindrical shell, and simple aperture lip (
Fig. 1
).
Other associated molluscs:
In
the deposits of the river in
Temnata Dupka cave
studied we also collected and
one juvenile
shell of a freshwater mussel from the genus
Pisidium
Pfeiffer, 1821
.