Pseudamnicola welterschultesi, Neubauer, Thomas A., Harzhauser, Mathias, Kroh, Andreas, Elisavet, Georgopoulou & Mandic, Oleg, 2014

Neubauer, Thomas A., Harzhauser, Mathias, Kroh, Andreas, Elisavet, Georgopoulou & Mandic, Oleg, 2014, Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda. Part 2, ZooKeys 429, pp. 13-46 : 18

Taxon classification Animalia ORDO FAMILIA

Pseudamnicola welterschultesi nom. n.

Valvata minima Fuchs, 1877: 14, pl. 1, figs 25-27 [non Valvata minima Hislop, 1859].

Valvata (Cincinna) minima Fuchs; Wenz 1928a: 2439 (cum syn.) [non Hislop 1859].

Pseudamnicola minima (Fuchs, 1877); Willmann 1981: 212, textfig. 74 [non Hislop 1859].

Etymology.

In honor of Francisco W. Welter-Schultes (University of Göttingen), a great expert for the living non-marine mollusks of Europe.

Type locality.

Megara, Greece.

Age.

Pliocene ( Papp and Steininger 1979).

Lectotype and paralectotypes.

Natural History Museum Vienna, coll no. 1878/0020/0023 (designation by Willmann 1981, p. 212).

Discussion.

This species is a primary homonym of Valvata minima Hislop, 1859 (p. 170, pl. 5, fig. 13) from the Tertiary of East India (see also Haszprunar 2014, p. 69) and needs a replacement name. Based on general shape and the lack of striae on the protoconch typical of Valvata , Willmann (1981) combined this species with Pseudamnicola , what is followed herein.

Jekelius (1944), Stevanović (1951) and Bartha (1955) and several other authors also documented this taxon from various localities of the early Late Miocene of Lake Pannon. Given the stratigraphical and biogeographical gaps, these records probably represent different species.