New Freshwater molluscs from Crete, Greece (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae, Bythinellidae, Valvatidae)
Author
Glöer, Peter
Schulstrasse 3, D- 25491 Hetlingen, Germany; e-mail: gloeer @ malaco. de
Author
Hirschfelder, Hans-Jürgen
Schützenstr. 2, D- 93309 Kelheim, Germany; email: hja @ hirschfelder-kelheim. de
text
Ecologica Montenegrina
2019
2019-02-09
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10
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journal article
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10.37828/em.2019.20.2
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Pseudamnicola brachia
(
Westerlund, 1886
)
(
Fig. 1
,
3
)
Type
locality:
Creta
.
Remarks:
The original description (
Fig. 1
) corresponds with the
syntype
of Westerlund’s collection (
Fig. 3
). Unfortunately Westerlund did not mention the exact type locality on
Crete
in his description. On the label only the town of
Candia
is noted which is the older name of the capital Iráklio.
Figure 1.
Faksimile of the original description and the label of the syntype (fig. 3) of Westerlund’s collection.
The specimens collected by H-JH do not correspond with the original description nor with the picture of the
syntype
of
Pseudamnicola brachia
of Westerlund’s collection: “Gew. dick u. kurz, eifg., stumpf …“. This translates to: “spire broad, short ovate, obtuse …“. And the difference becomes particularly visible if we compare the type with a subadult specimen of
Pseudamnicola occulta
n. sp.
of the same size (
Figs. 3, 4
).
Figure 2.
The sampling sites of the studied material of
Pseudamnicola
spp.
on Crete, Greece. Black dot: Iráklio (= Kandia), syntype of
Pseudamnicola brachia
(
Westerlund, 1886
)
in coll. Westerlund; 1: Topólia, type locality of
Pseudamnicola occulta
n. sp.
; green dot: Spíli, paratype locality of
P. occulta
n. sp.
; red dots: additional material of
P. occulta
n. sp.
, 2 = Myrthios, 3 = Amári Valley between Méronas and Amári, 4 = Zou, 5 = Zákros; blue dot: Almyros spring in Georgioúpoli, sampling site of
Pseudamnicola
sp.
in
Szarowska
et al
. (2015)
, see Figs. 5, 6; yellow dot: Almira spring near Chaniá, sampling site of
Pseudamnicola
sp.
in
Schütt (1980
, Fig. 29).
Figures 3-6.
The
Pseudamnicola
spp.
from Crete. 3: Syntype of
P. brachia
, 4: subadult shell of
Pseudamnicola occulta
n. sp.
of same size as
P. brachia
,
5:
Pseudamnicola
sp.
from the publication of
Szarowska
et al
. (2015
, Fig. 7 C) and 6: as well as a penis (Fig. 10 L).
Schütt (1980: 133)
listed
Pseudamnicola brachia
from many sampling sites on
Crete
, also from Spíli but not from Topólia. If we compare his photos with
P. occulta
n. sp.
we see that Schütt had possibly the new species in hand, but not
P. brachia
. Also the photos presented in
Szarowska
et al
. (2015)
correspond very well with
P. occulta
n. sp.
(see
Figs. 7-10
).