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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Travunijana nitida
(
Schütt, 1963
)
comb. nov.
Fig. 13F
Plagigeyeria nitida
Schütt, 1963: 210–211
, fig. 8.
Plagigeyeria nitida
– Schütt 1972: 116, 119, pl. 6 fig. 8. —
Bole & Velkovrh 1986: 202
—
Bodon, Manganelli & Giusti 1996: 33
, fig. 13. —
Bank 2013
: Fauna Europaea v. 2.6 —
Bank & Neubert 2017: 25
.
Diagnosis
Elongate-oval hard-shelled species (
3.6 mm
) with smooth shiny shell surface and weak umbilical keel present close to the umbilicus. Elongate oval aperture obscuring the umbilicus and only slightly protruding at the basal view. Lateral labral profile is straight and columellar labrum possesses a weak fold.
Distribution
The empty shells are known only from springs at the southern end of Hutovo (Svitavsko) Blato (Vrelo “Sopot Mlin” and others at Sjekoše and Bajovci
2 m
a.s.l.) (Schütt 1972). These springs receive their karst water from the main swallow holes of the River Trebišnjica at the end of Popovo Polje (
227 m
a.s.l.).
Remarks
The species is typical with its carinated umbilicus and elongated smooth shell surface. It is well separable from the sympatric
T. edlaueri
(
Schütt, 1961
)
, which has a larger, more conical shell with a more inflated aperture, but both still keeping the straight labral profile and weak sinulus at the columellar margin.