Esperiana esperi ( Férussac, 1823 )

Marković, Vanja, Gojšina, Vukašin, Novaković, Boris, Božanić, Milenka, Stojanović, Katarina, Karan-Žnidaršič, Tamara & Živić, Ivana, 2021, The freshwater molluscs of Serbia: Annotated checklist with remarks on distribution and protection status, Zootaxa 5003 (1), pp. 1-64 : 12-13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5003.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8C98CC0B-18AF-418A-A794-AA3CA9CB7409

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7506164

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CDA653-FFE2-FFEC-FF41-18AAFD8DDF93

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Esperiana esperi ( Férussac, 1823 )
status

 

8. Esperiana esperi ( Férussac, 1823) View in CoL

Findings in Serbia.

Melanopsis esperi: Möllendorff (1873) View in CoL .

Hemisinus esperi: Nikolajević (1907) .

Fagotia esperi: Jaeckel et al. (1958) ; Matoničkin et al. (1975); Arambašić (1994); Jovanović (1999); Karaman (2001); (2005); Simić & Simić (2004); Živić et al. (2006).

Esperiana esperi View in CoL : Karaman & Karaman (2007); Paunović et al. (2007a, 2008, 2012 a); Marković et al. (2012); Martinović-Vitanović et al. (2013); Novaković (2014 –2017 pers. comm.); Živić (2020).

Morphology. Medium-sized snails (conical elongated shell up to 25 mm high). Shell is smooth, or finely striated with 6–8 whorls, upper whorls can be eroded. Colouration pattern of shell is yellowish, brownish, or black, and usually has irregular red spots. Aperture is acute ovate and broader than the literal line of shell. For more details see Welter-Schultes (2012: 35, figure at the bottom of the page).

Distribution and ecology. Ponto-pannonic species inhabiting a wide spectrum of habitats (muddy substrate, solid substrate and rocks, submerged vegetation, and roots) in rivers and lakes ( Welter-Schultes 2012). In Serbia, though it rarely reaches high population densities, this snail is quite common and widespread. It could be found in large Pannonian river-systems (Danube, Sava, Tisza) as well as in the Drina, Velika Morava-Zapadna Morava-Južna Morava and Timok drainages.

Other remarks. Recent investigations suggest that this species is a thermal specialist particularly susceptible to seasonal temperatures fluctuations ( Tytar & Makarova 2015). On the IUCN Red List it has been assessed as LC ( Fehér 2011 b).

Genus Microcolpia Bourguignat, 1884

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Architaenioglossa

Family

Melanopsidae

Genus

Esperiana

Loc

Esperiana esperi ( Férussac, 1823 )

Marković, Vanja, Gojšina, Vukašin, Novaković, Boris, Božanić, Milenka, Stojanović, Katarina, Karan-Žnidaršič, Tamara & Živić, Ivana 2021
2021
Loc

Fagotia esperi:

Jaeckel 1958
1958
Loc

Hemisinus esperi: Nikolajević (1907)

Nikolajevic 1907
1907
Loc

Melanopsis esperi: Möllendorff (1873)

Mollendorff 1873
1873
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