Arganiella Giusti & Pezzoli, 1980 (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea: Hydrobiidae): a widespread genus or several narrow-range endemic genera?
Author
Delicado, Diana
ED8CD4C8-7310-40E3-8821-7721615A5992
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Department of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26 - 32 IFZD, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
didelicado@gmail.com
Author
Pešić, Vladimir
2B46F869-1202-47A9-9359-0BE04D691F6C
University of Montenegro, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Cetinjski put b. b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.
vladopesic@gmail.com
Author
Ramos, Marian A.
C108BACD-06A7-4C6D-8466-2A1CFE349DEB
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
m.ramos@mncn.csic.es
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2021
2021-05-21
750
1
140
155
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.750.1369
journal article
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10.5852/ejt.2021.750.1369
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Genus
Docleiana
Delicado & Pešić
gen. nov.
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Type
species
Arganiella tabanensis
Boeters, Glöer & Pešić, 2014
.
Revised diagnosis
Shell valvatiform; whorls ca 3; aperture complete, from rounded to ellipsoidal; outer lip narrow, straight in lateral profile; umbilicus wide. Operculum corneous, yellowish, thin, pliable, rounded, paucispiral with a central nucleus, without peg. Two pairs of basal cusps on each central radular tooth. Ctenidium well developed, with 10–11 gill filaments. Animal unpigmented. Osphradium positioned opposite approximately to the middle of the ctenidium. Stomach without gastric caecum; rectum forms a gentle V-shape in the mantle cavity. Bursa copulatrix small, globular, pedunculated and positioned beyond the posterior edge of the albumen gland; bursal duct longer than bursal length; unpigmented renal oviduct; one pyriform seminal receptacle arising at the insertion point with the bursal duct loop. Penis small and simple, gradually tapering.
Etymology
The new genus is named after Doclea, the name of the Roman city located on the site of modern Podgorica on whose municipal territory a new genus was found; gender feminine.
Remarks
Docleiana
Delicado & Pešić
gen. nov.
can be distinguished from
Arganiella
as the former has a more ellipsoidal shell aperture, a narrower base of the penis, a smaller bursa copulatrix that is positioned beyond the posterior edge of the albumen gland, a larger seminal receptacle and more cusps on the lateral radular teeth (
Fig. 2
; for comparison, see
Giusti & Pezzoli 1980
;
Boeters
et al.
2014
). The new genus differs from the closely related genus
Kerkia
by its smaller shell, absence of lobes on the inner edge of the penis, a smaller bursa copulatrix, a more globular seminal receptacle and V-shaped rectum (see
Radoman 1978
;
Bodon
et al.
2001
). Mean COI sequence divergence for
Docleiana
Delicado & Pešić
gen. nov.
was 14.5% with
Arganiella
and 12.3% with
Kerkia
.