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

ABSTRACT: Anew minute valvatiform species belonging to the genus Daphniola Radoman, 1973, Daphniola eptalophossp. 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.

SUBMITTER: Radea C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3208520 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Radea Canella C

ZooKeys 20111019 138

Anew minute valvatiform species belonging to the genus Daphniola Radoman, 1973, Daphniola eptalophossp. 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. ...[more]

PMID: 22144853

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