A new species of hydrobiid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from central Greece

Authors: Radea, Canella Country: Greenland DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.138.1927 Published: Jan. 1, 2011 Source: ZooKeys OpenAlex: View in OpenAlex

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: Caenogastropoda · Topics: Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Mollusks and Parasites Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research

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A new minute valvatiform species belonging to the genus Daphniola Radoman 1973, Daphniola eptalophos sp. n., from mountain Parnassos, Greece is described. The new species has a transparent valvatiform-planispiral shell, wide and open umbilicus, grey-black pigmented soft body and head and a black penis with a small colorless outgrowth on the left side near its base. A comparative table of shell dimensions and a key to the species known for this endemic genus for Greece are provided.

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