Drusia (Escutiella) deshayesii
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratoire de Production, sauvegarde des espèces menacées et des récoltes, Influence des variations climatiques, Mouloud Mammeri University, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria
- 2. Via del Giubileo Magno 93, 90015 Cefalù, Italy
- 3. Department of Biomolecular Sciences, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Via Maggetti 22, 61029, Urbino, Italy
Description
Drusia (Escutiella) deshayesii (Moquin-Tandon, 1848)
Figs 56–58
Parmacella deshayesi – Moquin-Tandon 1848: 261, pl. 1, fig. 5. Moquin-Tandon 1850: 49, 54, 55, 56 – province d’Oran. Fischer 1856: 380 –398, pl. 5 – Oran. Bourguignat 1861: 47 –54, pls. 4, 5 – Environs d’Oran (Algerie). Blanchard 1891: 215 – Algeria: Orléansville. Seurat 1930: 261 – Algérie. Llabador 1936: 201, 203 – Algeria: Massif des M’sirdas au Sud-Ouest de Nemours.
Parmacella dorsalis – Pechaud 1884: 8 – Au village Lamoricière, entre Tlemcen et Sidi-bel-Abbès; Tanger – Not Moquin-Tandon 1848.
Parmacella valenciennesi – Hesse 1885: 9 –12 (sic!) – Morocco: Tanger – (Anat.) – (Not Webb & Van Beneden, 1836).
Parmacella (Parmacella) deshayesi – Wiktor 1983 b: 83 –85, figs 1–9 – Morocco: Sidi Slimane, oued Elhadar, 3 km S from Taza Haut; Beni Hozmar Mts, ca. 5 km S. of Tetuan.
Parmacella (Escutiella) deshayesii – Martínez-Ortí and Borredà 2012: 1 –18, figs 1 a-f, 2 a-d, 3 a-i, 5 a-e, 6 (map) – Oran, Ain Franin, Oran-Kristel road, near the cliff (UTM = YE 2765); Tlemcen (UTM = XD 7372).
Drusia (Escutiella) deshayesii – Borredà and Martínez-Ortí 2017: 4, fig. 3 – Ain Franin, road Oran- Kristel, near the diff; Tlemcen.
Material examined.
• 5 exx; Relizane, El Hamadna; 35°53.633'N, 0°44.033'E; 85 m a. s. l.; 1 March 2022; A. Bekkouche leg.
Diagnosis.
Body unicolour reddish-brown both in juveniles and adults, with no bands or spots; shell with smooth protoconch and wide, oval spatula; genitalia characterised by a long vas deferens; gradually widening epiphallus; cylindrical penis with a swelling in the middle; short atrium, atrial accessory appendices only slightly unequal and with a big fold inside; very large perivaginal gland; duct of the bursa copulatrix widened at the base; large oval bursa copulatrix.
Distribution.
Northwest Algeria and northeast Morocco.
Ecology.
Parmacellids are herbivorous.
Remarks.
Drusia deshayesii is a well-known species (Wiktor 1983 b; Martínez-Ortí and Borredà 2012).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2022-03-01
- Verbatim event date
- 2022-03-01
- Scientific name authorship
- Moquin-Tandon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Stylommatophora
- Family
- Parmacellidae
- Genus
- Drusia
- Species
- deshayesii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Drusia (Escutiella) deshayesii (Moquin-Tandon, 1848) sec. Ramdini, Liberto, Sadouk, Gregorini & Colomba, 2026
References
- Moquin-Tandon A (1848) Quelques mots sur l'anatomie des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles. Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 15: 259–264. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32927604#page/259/mode/1up
- Moquin-Tandon A (1850) Note sur une nouvelle espèce de parmacelle (Parmacella Gervaisii), précédée de quelques considérations sur ce genre de mollusques. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse 6: 47–56. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26819#page/69/mode/1up
- Fischer M (1856) Mélanges de Conchyliologie (3 ° partie). Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 20 (4) [1855]: 357–400 [pl. 1]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/101836#page/365/mode/1up
- Bourguignat JR (1861–1862) Des Limaces algériennes. Revue et Magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée Série II, 13 (7): 299-306 [[ 1861] 13 (12): pl. 16, fig. 8]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/20623#page/319/mode/1up
- Blanchard RAE (1891) Résultats d'une excursion zoologique en Algérie. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 4: 208–245.
- Seurat LG (1930) Exploration zoologique de l'Algérie de 1830 à 1930. Collection du centenaire de l'Algérie 1830–1930, Études scientifiques. Masson et Compagnie, Paris, 708 pp.
- Llabador F (1936) Notice sur la faunule malacologique du Massif des M'Sirdas au Sud-Ouest de Nemours. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 27 (6): 200–203. https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/11178/?offset=#page=205&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=
- Pechaud MJ (1884) Excursions malacologiques dans le nord de l'Afrique de la Calle a Alger, d'Alger a Tanger. Tremblay, Pris, [1883], 112 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10695
- Hesse P (1885) Nacktschnecken von Tanger und Gibraltar. Malakozoologische Blätter 7: 102–103 [pl. 8, figs 1–4]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/110175#page/124/mode/1up
- Wiktor A (1983 b) Parmacellidae of the Mediterranean area and Canary Islands. Malakologische Abhandlungen 9: 81–96.
- Martínez-Ortí A, Borredà V (2012) New systematics of Parmacellidae P. Fischer 1856 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata), with the recovery of the genus-name Drusia Gray 1855 and the description of Escutiella subgen. nov. Journal of Conchology 41: 1–18. https://conchsoc.org/sites/default/files/jconch/41/1/2012-41101.pdf
- Borredà V, Martínez-Ortí A (2017) Contribution to the knowledge of the terrestrial slugs (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) of the Maghreb. Iberus : Revista de la Sociedad Española de Malacología 35 (1): 1–10. https://roderic.uv.es/rest/api/core/bitstreams/352ef7aa-9625-41db-99c3-3d02b1b0f8c0/content