Pseudamnicola (Pseudamnicola), (PSEUDAMNICOLA) PAULUCCI, 1878

Delicado, Diana, Machordom, Annie & Ramos, Marian A., 2014, Vicariant versus dispersal processes in the settlement of Pseudamnicola (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae) in the Mediterranean Balearic Islands, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 171 (1), pp. 38-71 : 48-49

SUBGENUS PSEUDAMNICOLA (PSEUDAMNICOLA) PAULUCCI, 1878

Type species

Bithynia lucensis Issel, 1866 ( Kennard & Woodward, 1926), subsequent designation.

Diagnosis

Shell ovate-conic, slightly longer than wide and an aperture wider than long; female genitalia with pyriform bursa copulatrix and one elongate seminal receptacle; penis broadly triangular with the base expanded and many folds along its entire surface; penis with a dark patch of pigment, whose extension varies amongst species, from its middle region to the tip; nervous system generally elongate ( RPG ratio from 0.50 to 0.67).

Composition

Six species in the Ibero-Balearic region: two in the Iberian Peninsula (one of which is also present on Ibiza Island), three on Majorca Island, and one on Minorca Island.