A case of biodiversity overestimation in the Balkan Belgrandiella A. J. Wagner, 1927 (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae): molecular divergence not paralleled by high morphological variation
Author
Osikowski, Artur
Author
Hofman, Sebastian
Author
Rysiewska, Aleksandra
Author
Sket, Boris
Author
Prevorčnik, Simona
Author
Falniowski, Andrzej
text
Journal of Natural History
2018
2018-02-06
52
5 - 6
323
344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1424959
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2018.1424959
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Belgrandiella
cf.
koprivnensis
Radoman, 1975
(
Figure 3s, t
)
Diagnosis
Shell ovate, broad, spire high and broad, apex blunt, whorls rather flat, aperture ovoid, narrow, with an angle at its upper right side, peristome continuous, parietal lip well developed, umbilicus slit-like, outer lip simple.
Type
material
Locus typicus: the Krčana spring, about
2 km
from the road Cazin-Bužim, near the
Donja Koprivna village
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
.
Distribution
Endemic to
Bosnia and Herzegovina
.
Despite reservations concerning species determinations, four nominal species (
B. krupensis
,
B. robusta
,
B. umbilicata
and
B. zermanica
) and one genus (
Boleana
) must be synonymised with
Belgrandiella kusceri
, and there are no more than four valid biological species in the studied
Belgrandiella
. So, as noted already by
Falniowski and Beran (2015)
, the level of endemism is markedly overestimated in
Belgrandiella
snails.