Grossuana sidironerensis, Glöer & Reuselaars & Papavasileiou, 2018

Glöer, Peter, Reuselaars, Robert & Papavasileiou, Kyriakos, 2018, Grossuana Radoman, 1973 from Macedonia (Greece) (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea) with the description of three new species, Ecologica Montenegrina 17, pp. 14-19 : 18

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2018.17.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12717438

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/64B22A02-800C-4265-8382-393BC170F21E

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:64B22A02-800C-4265-8382-393BC170F21E

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scientific name

Grossuana sidironerensis
status

sp. nov.

Grossuana sidironerensis View in CoL n.sp.

( Figs. 14-17 View Figures 14-17 , Fig. 19 View Figures 18-21 )

Type series. Holotype ( RMNH.MOL.339916): Shell height 1.7 mm, shell width 1.0 mm; 3 Paratypes (ethanol) from type locality ( RMNH.MOL.339917). 4 ex. in coll. Reuselaars (no. 1141), 2 ex. (dry) in coll. Glöer, 3 ex. (ethanol) coll. Falniowski.

Locus typicus: Spring in Sidironero , 45 km north of Drama , Prefecture of Drama, Greece, Rhodope mountains. 06.09.2017 R. E. Reuselaars leg. The specimen were collected from old leaves in the spring .

Etymology: Named after the town Sidironero

Description: The brownish shell is ovate with 4.5 fast growing whorls which are slightly convex with a weak suture. The periostome is sharp and the umbilicus is closed. The aperture is ovate, the operculum is red.

The shell height is 1.3-1.8 mm, width 1.0- 1.3 mm.

The mantle is black with a light-grey border. The penis is nearly regularly broad with a small tapered penis-tip. There is a dark spot at the basis of the penis-tip.

Differentiating features: The penis is regularly broad with a small and thin tapered penis-tip by which it differs from G. angeltsekovi and G. slavyanica , as well as from the Grossuana spp. described here as new.

Associated species: Grossuana angeltskovi , Bythinella dierckingi Glöer & Georgiev 2011 (new record for Greece).

Remark: All specimens are coated with a layer of Fe/Mn ( Fig. 17 View Figures 14-17 ).

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

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