Sphyradium Charpentier 1837
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Genus Sphyradium Charpentier 1837
Sphyradium doliolum ( Bruguière 1792)
Bulimus doliolum Bruguière Encyclopédie méthodique: 351. (1792)
Sphyradium dobrogicum Grossu, new synonym Travaux du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle ‘’ Grigore Antipa’’ 28: 7-13. Bucureşti. [Dobrogea, département de Tulcea, près du Monastère Cocoş de la Forêt Luncaviţa.] (1986)
Sphyradium dobrogicum , - Grossu: Gastropoda Romaniae 2: 228-230, fig. 120. [ ‘’ pădurea Luncaviţa în apropierea Mănăstirei Cocoş, jud. Tulcea’’]. (1987)
Orcula dobrogica , - Welter-Schultes, European non-marine molluscs:143. (2012)
Remarks.
Sphyradium dobrogicum was described based on a single shell. The holotype could not be located in the collection of the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History (Bucharest) during a recent search (2012). It could still be in Grossu’s house (Oana Popa, pers. comm., 2011) but, at present, the holotype seems to be lost.
Bank (2011) and Welter-Schultes (2012) assigned the species to Orcula without supporting evidence. Sphyradium dobrogicum has a domed apex, a ribbed shell and very weak lamellae (see original description and drawing), indicating that it may represent a dwarf specimen of Sphyradium doliolum . We visited the type locality of Sphyradium dobrogicum in 2011 but found only Sphyradium doliolum .
Based on available information we suggest using Sphyradium dobrogicum as a synonym of Sphyradium doliolum .
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