Revision of the stygobiont gastropod genera Plagigeyeria Tomlin, 1930 and Travunijana Grego & Glöer, 2019 (Mollusca; Gastropoda; Moitessieriidae and Hydrobiidae) in Hercegovina and adjacent regions
Author
Grego, Jozef
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Horná Mičiná, SK- 97401 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.
jozef.grego@gmail.com
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-07-27
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journal article
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10.5852/ejt.2020.691
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Travunijana vruljakensis
Grego & Glöer, 2019
Figs 5B
,
14A
Travunijana vruljakensis
Grego & Glöer, 2019: 88
, figs 2–6
.
Diagnosis
Robust elongate-conical shell (
2.7–2.9 mm
) with prominent body whorl, fine axial growth lines, blunt apex, closed umbilicus, unprotruding aperture with straight labral profile and sinuated columellar aperture margin. Penis morphology characterised by a small typical outgrowth at the left side, near the blunt penis tip. Teleoconch surface with irregular growth lines, nepionic whorl with irregular flatnodulous malleation and protoconch surface weakly regularly pitted.
Distribution
The species is known only from its
type
locality at Vrelo “Goricki Studenac” at Gorica near Trebinje and in the nearby Vrelo “Vruljak 1”.
Remarks
The
type
species of the genus can be classified as crenobiont, however the white animal and reduced eyes could suggest an adaptation to deeper crenobiont zone at the border of stygobiont habitat. The species was not found inside the deep cave zone of the adjacent cave Vrelo “Vruljak 1”. The sexual dimorphism reported for this species (Grego & Glöer 2019) can be very likely generalised to the whole genus and could explain the shell morphology variability of other species assigned herein to the genus.