Islamia steffeki Glöer & Grego 2015, n. sp.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Biodiversity Research Laboratory, Schulstrasse 3, D- 25491 Hetlingen, Germany. E-mail: gloeer @ malaco. de.
- 2. Horná Mičiná, SK- 97401 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. E-email: jozef. grego @ gmail. com
Description
(Figs 33-36)
Holotype: shell height 1.65 mm, width 1.7 mm, HNHM 99431.
Paratypes: 3 juv, specimens in ethanol, 20 specimens + some broken shells HNHM 99432 and 8 pecimens coll Grego from Izvor plive 1A + 5 specimens from spring in Gornja Pećka HNHM 99434 + 11 specimens from Izvor Plive 1B, HNHM 99433, 2 specimen in coll. Glöer.
Locus typicus: Republika Srpska, Draganić, Izvor Plive 1A, ca 150 m E of Izvor Plive 1, side spring in a house yard at right side of path to Izvor Plive 1, sandy sediment at the bottom of the spring zone; N44.240797°, E17.017108°; 05.04.2015 Jozef Grego leg. (Fig. 4).
Etymology: The species is named after the ever helpful and untimely deceased prof. Jozef Šteffek, a dedicated malacologist of Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia.
Description
Shell. The whitish shell is conical with 5.5 fast growing convex whorls separated by a deep suture. The aperture is circular, the umbilicus as wide as the half of the penultimate whorl. Shell height 1.6–1.7 mm, width 1.7–1.9 mm.
Operculum light orange, concave without a peg.
Differentiating features: The spire is higher and the whorls are more convex than all Islamia spp. mentioned by Radoman (1983) and Bodon et al. (2001).
Distribution: Known from type locality and sampling site 3 at Gornja Pećka and Izvor Plive 1A and 1B.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/237AFFAC6172FFE6FF8C647B3F13FF87 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1D576A25-A43F-4BC2-93A6-17EEFF09DA6E (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/DF4387D46174FFE1FF1B67983FD2FEE2 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- HNHM
- Material sample ID
- HNHM 99431 , HNHM 99432 , HNHM 99433 , HNHM 99434
- Scientific name authorship
- Glöer & Grego
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Littorinimorpha
- Family
- Hydrobiidae
- Genus
- Islamia
- Species
- steffeki
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype , paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Islamia steffeki Glöer & Grego, 2015
References
- Radoman, P. (1983) Hydrobioidea a superfamily of Prosobranchia (Gastropoda). I. Systematics. Monographs 547, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, (Department of Science), 256 pp.
- Bodon, M., Manganelli, G. & Giusti. F. (2001) A survey of the European valvatiform Hydrobiid genera, with special reference to Hauffenia Pollonera, 1898 (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Malcologia, 43 (1 - 2), 103 - 215.