Belgrandiella cf. kuesteri ( Boeters, 1970 )

Osikowski, Artur, Hofman, Sebastian, Rysiewska, Aleksandra, Sket, Boris, Prevorčnik, Simona & Falniowski, Andrzej, 2018, A case of biodiversity overestimation in the Balkan Belgrandiella A. J. Wagner, 1927 (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae): molecular divergence not paralleled by high morphological variation, Journal of Natural History 52 (5 - 6), pp. 323-344 : 338

Belgrandiella cf. kuesteri ( Boeters, 1970) part.

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Paludinella minutissima Schmidt, 1847 (nom. nud.), Frauenfeld 1863.

Paludina minutissima Küster, 1852 .

Bythinella minutissima Hirc 1881, 1886 .

Frauenfeldia lacheineri var. minutissima Clessin 1890 .

Frauenfeldia lacheineri var. croatica Clessin, 1890 .

Frauenfeldia minutissima SajoviĆ 1908, KuŠčer 1928.

Microna saxatilis kuesteri Boeters 1970 .

Belgrandiella kuesteri Radoman 1975 .

Diagnosis

Shell relatively minute, narrow, turriform, spire high and narrow, apex blunt, whorls rather flat, body whorl of nearly the same breadth as penultimate one, aperture with angle at right upper side, protruded, peristome continuous, parietal lip well developed, covering umbilicus, outer lip simple.

Type material

Type locality: ‘ In Krain, am Grosskahlenber (= Šmarna Gora), in Quellen ’, in Küster 1852; a small spring in Tacen, at the end of this village, on its boundary-line toward the Šmartno village , in the foothills of Šmarna Gora, northwest of Ljubljana, Slovenia .

Distribution

Endemic to western and southern Slovenia and the upper Kupa/Kolpa drainage in Croatia.