New subterranean freshwater Molluscs from Bosnia & Hercegovina (Mollusca: Hydrobiidae)
Author
Glöer, Peter
Biodiversity Research Laboratory, Schulstrasse 3, D- 25491 Hetlingen, Germany. E-mail: gloeer @ malaco. de.
Author
Grego, Jozef
Horná Mičiná, SK- 97401 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. E-email: jozef. grego @ gmail. com
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Ecologica Montenegrina
2015
2015-06-14
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journal article
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urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1D576A25-A43F-4BC2-93A6-17EEFF09DA6E
Bythiospeum petroedei
n. sp.
(
Figs 28-32
)
Holotype
: shell height
2.1 mm
, width 1.0 mm,
HNHM 99429
.
Paratypes
:
6 specimen
+ some broken shells from Izvor Plive 1A,>
50 specimens
,
HNHM 99430
,
6 specimen
in coll. Glöer,
10 specimens
in coll
Grego
from
Izvor Plive
1B
.
Locus typicus
:
Bosnia
&
Hercegovina
,
Izvor Plive
1B, ca.
200 m
E of izvor
Plive
1, side spring 2 just under left side of path to
Izvor Plive
1; sandy sediment directly at bottom of spring outlet;
N44.240893°
,
E17.018252°
;
05.04.2015
Jozef
&
Maroš Grego
leg. (
Fig. 4, 5
)
Etymology
: Species is names after Ede Petró, untimely deceased avid malacologist from
Budapest
,
Hungary
, who contributed the study of spring fauna of Northern
Hungary
.
Description
Shell.
The whitish and silky shell is elongate-conic with 5.5 whorls, apex blunt. The umbilicus is closed, aperture oval, slightly sinuated outer lip from lateral view. Shell height 2.0–
2.3 mm
, width 1.0–
1.1 mm
.
Differentiating features:
Bythiospeum petroedei
n. sp.
differs from
B. blihensis
n. sp.
and
B. plivensis
n. sp.
in size. From
B. hrustovoensis
n. sp.
it differs by the sinuated outer lip, which is in
B. hrustovoensis
n. sp.
only weak developed. From
B. maroskoi
n. sp.
it differs in the embryonic shell, which ratio of the first half whorl to first whorl is in
B. maroskoi
n. sp.
0.5 and in
B. petroedei
n. sp.
0.75.
Distribution
: Only known from
type
locality.
Associated species
:
Belgrandiella fontinalis
(F.J. Schmidt, 1847)
,
Ancylus recurvus
von Martens, 1873
,
Bythinella
sp.
(juv.),
Hauffenia sp.