Grossuana Radoman, 1973 from Macedonia (Greece) (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea) with the description of three new species
Author
Glöer, Peter
Schulstrasse 3, D- 25491 Hetlingen, Germany, email: gloeer @ malaco. de
Author
Reuselaars, Robert
Westerwal 40, 9408 MS Assen, Netherlands, email: f 2 hreuselaa @ hetnet. nl
Author
Papavasileiou, Kyriakos
Komninon 39, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki 55131, Greece, email: kpapav @ yahoo. com
text
Ecologica Montenegrina
2018
2018-03-26
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http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2018.17.2
journal article
10.37828/em.2018.17.2
2336-9744
13360645
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BDB4115-4999-4B15-B876-F2D1184430B1
Genus
Grossuana
Radoman, 1973
Radoman (1983)
described the genus
Grossuana
as follows: “Shell ovoid, rarely somewhat elongated or shortened. With a strongly developed last whorl and an ovoid aperture. Operculum red. … Penis long, with a very prolonged, pointed top and a weak outgrowth on the left side, which is hardly visible in many specimens.”
That the shape of the penes of distinct species-groups look different in
Grossuana
spp.
has already been depicted by Georgiev
et. al
. (2015). They all have in common the tapered penis-tip which is much slimmer than the rest of the penis (e.g.
Fig. 3.2
).
In the southern part of the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains occurs
Grossuana angeltsekovi
Glöer & Georgiev 2009
and
G. slavyanica
Georgiev & Glöer 2013
, thus we have to compare the new species with these ones.