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
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Bythiospeum copiosus
(
Angelov, 1972
)
Distribution in
Bulgaria
:
Known only from its
type
locality, the Izvora cave near Polaten, Teteven district, Stara Planina Mts. (
Angelov 1972
).
Material examined:
2 shells,
03.12.2010
, Glava Panega spring, near village of Zlatna Panega,
Stara Planina Mts.
, North
Bulgaria
, UTM KH67,
D. Georgiev
leg.
Diagnosis:
The shell is conical, the whorls are 4 ½ - 5, the aperture has not well developed lip which discerns this species from
B. bureschi
which shell is more cylindrical, has 4 ½ - 5 ½ whorls and its aperture has well developed lip (
Fig 1
,
3
).
Discussion:
Firstly this species was described as a subspecies of
B. bureschi
as
Paladilhiopsis bureschi copiosus
Angelov, 1972
. The genus
Paladilhiopsis
Pavlović, 1913
is considering
Boeters (1998)
, a synonym of
Bythiospeum
Bourguignat. Both
B. copiosus
and
B. bureschi
stat. nov.
have quite different shell morphology and their localities are very far from each other so we consider
B. copiosus
as a separate species.