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A new species of stygobitic snail in the genus Antrorbis Hershler & Thompson, 1990 (Gastropoda, Cochliopidae) from the Appalachian Valley and Ridge of eastern Tennessee, USA

  • 1. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, United States of America
  • 2. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, United States of America
  • 3. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States of America
  • 4. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States of America
  • 5. The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States of America
  • 6. Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States of America|Drexel University, Philadelphia, United States of America

Description

A new species of cave snail (Littorinimorpha: Cochliopidae) in the genus Antrorbis is described from the dark zone of two caves in the Appalachian Valley and Ridge province in eastern Tennessee, United States. The Tennessee Cavesnail, Antrorbis tennesseensis Perez, Shoobs, Gladstone, & Niemiller, sp. nov. is distinguished from its only known congener, Antrorbis breweri, by the absence of raised tubercles on its finely spirally striate protoconch, and its unique radular formula. Moreover, A. tennesseensis is genetically distinct from A. breweri based on substantial divergence at the mitochondrial CO1 locus. This is the first cavesnail to be described from the Appalachian Valley and Ridge (AVR) physiographic province in the state of Tennessee, which previously represented a substantial gap in the distribution of stygobitic (i.e., aquatic, subterranean-obligate) gastropods.

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