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classification Animalia Pulmonata Ellobiidae
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Zospeum zaldivarae Prieto, De Winter, Weigand,
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&amp; Jochum
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Figures 6, 7
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sp.,
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Prieto and
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1985
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: 145, Fig. 3
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.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="86">
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sp. n. 3,
<bibRefCitation author="Altonaga, K" journalOrPublisher="Eusko Legebiltzarra - Parlamento Vasco (Premio Xabier Maria de Munibe), Vitoria" pageId="7" pageNumber="88" title="Estudio faunistico y biogeografico de los Moluscos terrestres del norte de la Peninsula Iberica." year="1994">Altonaga et al. 1994</bibRefCitation>
: 73 (in part).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="86">
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sp. n. 3,
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: 402, Fig. 3 B.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="86">
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sp. 2,
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: 8, Fig. 2.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="86">Material.</paragraph>
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Type material. Holotype (MNCN15.05/60148H)): Spain, Prov. Burgos, Berberana, Monte de Santiago, Cueva de Las
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, UTM 30TWN0062054680,
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,
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, alt. c. 840 m, moist, muddy walls in karst cave, 09.11.2013, leg. C. Prieto.
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Paratypes: locus typicus: 8 specimens (MNCN15.05/60148P ex UPV/EHU-FC:1608) and 2 shells (NMBE 529904/2), 2 shells (SMF 341635) and 2 shells (RMNH.5003943), data as the holotype. 1 shell (UPV/EHU-FC:64), 12.02.1984, leg. P.
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. 2 shells (MNCN 15.05/60149, ex UPV/EHU-FC:70) and 3 shells (UPV/EHU-FC:72), 11.11.1984, leg. C. Prieto, B.
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&amp; P.
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, 9 specimens (UPV/EHU-FC:559), 21.06.2011, leg. C. Prieto, A. Jochum, A. Weigand, R. Slapnik &amp; J.
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. 7 specimens + 5 shells (UPV/EHU-FC:560), ibid., 3 specimens molecularly processed (
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), 7 shells (4 broken) (AJC/1877), ibid., 5 shells (broken) (MCBI CSR SASA 40598), 11.11.1984, leg. C. Prieto &amp; B.
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, 3 shells (RMNH.234152).
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="86">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Shell turbinate-conical with approximately 5
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regularly coiled, convex, rounded whorls, transparent, comparatively large; columellar and palatal-basal lip narrowly reflected; umbilicus closed, umbilical depression deep.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="86">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="86">Measurements are provided in Table 2.</paragraph>
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Table 2. Holotype dimensions and summary of shell measurements (mean, maximum (max), minimum (min), and standard deviation (sd)) of type material of
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<th colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">W</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">SH/SW</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">HLW/SH</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">PH/SH</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">CT</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">PH/PW</th>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">holotype</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">mean</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">max</td>
</tr>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">min</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="5" pageNumber="86" rowspan="1">sd</td>
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Shell minute, turbinate-conical, with approximately 5
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regularly coiled, convex, rounded whorls; shell transparent when fresh, chalky white with age, comparatively large, rather variable in shape; teleoconch sculpture of irregular axial striae or blunt growth lines, often crossed by an equally superficial spiral element, some distinct axial ribbing may be present for a short distance immediately behind palatal-basal lip; last whorl large and tumid, encompassing ca. 2/3 of shell height; aperture lunate; peristome somewhat higher than wide, closely adhering to spire, taking up about half of the shell height, angular, with a thin, straight parietal callus; apertural dentition usually consisting of a small, short lamella on the parietal wall and a tooth on the parietal-columellar corner of the peristome (barely conspicuous in frontal view (Fig. 6A), best discernable in a slightly oblique, apertural view (Fig. 6D)); apertural barriers can however, be entirely absent (Fig. 7D); columella with a single, low, lamella-like dilatation (Fig. 7G), only visible in body whorl at some distance from the aperture.
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Figure 6.
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sp. n., A,
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different views of holotype shell (MNCN 15.05/60148H) D aperture in slightly oblique view showing apertural barriers.
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Figure 7.
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sp. n.,
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different views of edentate paratype shell (RMNH.234152) D aperture in oblique view G paratype shell (UPV/EHU-FC: 72) with window in body whorl exposing columella.
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<paragraph pageId="5" pageNumber="86">Differential diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Though comparatively large amongst Iberian species, the
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zaldivarae
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shell is minute (shell height ca. 1.5 mm) and turbinate-conical in form. It is however, larger, wider (ca. 1.2 mm) and less elongate than other known Iberian
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species except
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.
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has a more tightly coiled shell with palatal-basal apertural barriers.
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="87">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The new species is named after
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Pilar
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, a biologist and speleologist from the
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Speleological Team, who discovered the species in the 1980's.
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.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="88">Only known from the type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="88">Ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="88">
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was found sparingly in a muddy sediment matrix of somewhat coarse, vermiform texture interspersed by clumped aggregations of yellow- and white-coloured fungi (Fig. 8C) (
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fig.
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). No bats or bat guano were seen in the vicinity of the collection site. The species was found syntopically with
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.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="88">
Figure 8. Habitat of
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species.
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Moist muddy layer with
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sp. n. in Cueva Arrikrutz; Prov. Gipuzkoa, Natural Park of Aizkorri-Araotz,
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C Muddy sediment matrix of
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sp. n. habitat in Cueva de Las
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(locus typicus) with congener (
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) in view.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="88">Conservation.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="88">
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is only known from the Cueva de Las
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. Consequently, and in conjunction with the Guidelines for the IUCN Red List (
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) it is a vulnerable, narrow range endemic (Vu D2) and as such, warrants immediate conservation priority. Although this cave belongs to the Natural Monument of Monte Santiago, it is nonetheless relatively easily accessible to the public.
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<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="88">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="88">
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appears to be polymorphic in the presence/absence of apertural barriers. These barriers were not noticed in the material sequenced by
<bibRefCitation author="Weigand, AM" journalOrPublisher="BMC Evolutionary Biology" pageId="8" pageNumber="89" pagination="1 - 18" title="Evolution of microgastropods (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae): Integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and evolutionary hypotheses." url="10.1186/1471-2148-13-18" volume="13" year="2013">Weigand et al. (2013)</bibRefCitation>
, but their presence cannot be excluded. However, we have little doubt that the dentate and edentate specimens co-occurring at the type locality are conspecific.
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is conchologically quite different from most other Iberian
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Ellobiidae" genus="Zospeum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zospeum" order="Ellobiida" pageId="7" pageNumber="88" phylum="Mollusca" rank="genus">Zospeum</taxonomicName>
species hitherto described. In shape, it best resembles
<taxonomicName class="Gastropoda" family="Ellobiidae" genus="Zospeum" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Zospeum biscaiense" order="Ellobiida" pageId="7" pageNumber="88" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="biscaiense">Zospeum biscaiense</taxonomicName>
. These two species share a wide shell with a reniform aperture and an angular, not roundish, peristome with a straight palatal-columellar callus. Also, phylogenetically, this species is distinct (
<bibRefCitation author="Weigand, AM" journalOrPublisher="BMC Evolutionary Biology" pageId="8" pageNumber="89" pagination="1 - 18" title="Evolution of microgastropods (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae): Integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and evolutionary hypotheses." url="10.1186/1471-2148-13-18" volume="13" year="2013">Weigand et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
) and possibly more closely related to
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.
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