Shifting shell morphology in a Late Miocene-Pliocene land snail species lineage (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Spiraxidae), with the description of a new species
Author
Albesa, Joaquín
Departamento de Botánica y Geología, Universitat de València, 46100 Burjassot (Spain) and Museu Valencià d’Historia Natural, P. O. Box 8460, 46018 Alginet (Spain) joaquin. albesa @ uv. es
albesa@uv.es
Author
Neubauer, Thomas A.
SNSB - Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich (Germany) and Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden (The Netherlands)
text
Geodiversitas
2023
2023-11-16
45
21
643
657
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2023v45a21.pdf
journal article
10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a21
1638-9395
10144332
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:395206B2-2C0A-44E4-9F81-4C871D9A39EF
Subfamily
EUGLANDININAE
Baker, 1941
REMARKS
The genera
Palaeoglandina
,
Pseudoleacina
and
Trachyglandina
are traditionally included in
Oleacinidae
(
Wenz 1923
;
Nordsieck 2014
;
Harzhauser & Neubauer 2021
). However, this systematic placement is based on an outdated concept that unites true oleacinids and European species presently considered to belong in
Spiraxidae
(compare e.g.
Schileyko 2000
vs
Hausdorf & Solvery 2021
).
Nordsieck (2014)
considered the genera
Palaeoglandina
and
Pseudoleacina
to belong in
Euglandininae
, which is today ranked as a subfamily of
Spiraxidae
(see also
Salvador
2013
). We follow that concept, which is congruent with the similarity of the fossil species and modern representatives of the subfamily, such as
Euglandina
and
Poiretia
(
Schileyko 2000
)
. The monotypic genus
Trachyglandina
is here only tentatively referred to the
Euglandininae
, since it is based solely on a fragment; until further material of the
type
species,
Trachyglandina dietrichii
Pfeffer, 1930
, is discovered both genus and
type
species should be considered
nomina dubia
.
The revised placement of the three genera is also supported by the geographic distribution of modern
Euglandininae
, some of which occur in the Mediterranean region and the Caucasus (e.g.
Schileyko 2000
;
Welter-Schultes 2012
;
Helwerda 2015
), while true
Oleacinidae
are restricted to the Americas (
Schileyko 2000
;
Barker & Efford 2004
) (note that some of these authors included the relevant genera in
Oleacinidae
).