Underestimated diversity of hydrobiid snails. The case of Pseudamnicola (Corrosella) (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae)
Author
Delicado, Diana
Author
Machordom, Annie
Author
Ramos, Marian A.
text
Journal of Natural History
2011
J. Nat. Hist.
2012-01-31
46
1 - 2
25
89
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2011.623358
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2011.623358
1464-5262
5199547
Pseudamnicola
Paulucci, 1878
Type
species
Bithynia lucensis
Issel, 1866
(
Kennard and Woodward, 1926
), subsequent designation.
Etymology
The name
Pseudamnicola
was used to distinguish the European species formerly included in
Amnicola
(
Paulucci, 1878
)
.
Diagnosis (new diagnosis)
Shell ovate-conic, with an inflated body whorl about three-quarters of shell length and aperture complete and oval; operculum corneous, yellowish, thin, pliable, ellipsoidal, paucispiral with submarginal nucleus; ctenidium well-developed; osphradium elliptical of intermediate width; radula with central tooth having one basal cusp on each lateral margin and a basal tongue broadly V-shaped; stomach with two chambers and a thin caecum lying on ventral side of posterior chamber; one digestive gland opening in posterior chamber; renal oviduct pigmented; only one seminal receptacle arising from renal oviduct close to insertion of bursa copulatrix duct; bursa copulatrix welldeveloped protruding behind pallial oviduct; prostate gland bean-shaped and penis simple with a distal patch of pigmentation, variable in size; nervous system pigmented with supraoesophageal connective longer than suboesophageal.