Two new species of Zospeum Bourguignat, 1856 from the Basque-Cantabrian Mountains, Northern Spain (Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae)

By

Jochum, Adrienne
Winter, Anton J. de
Weigand, Alexander M., 1984-
Gomez Moliner, Benjamin Juan
Prieto, Carlos

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

483

Pages

81-96

Subjects

cave-dwelling species , Conservation , Ecology , microgastropoda , pseudo-cryptic species , shell variability , subterranean snail

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.483.9167

 

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Zospeum Bourguignat, 1856 are described from caves in the Sierra de Aitzgorri (Gipuzkoa) and the Sierra Salvada (Burgos) in Northern Spain. The taxa Z. vasconicum sp. n. and Z. zaldivarae sp. n. have recently, without a formal name, been included in a molecular study of worldwide members of the Carychiidae. In the present paper, the shell morphology and variation of these species is described and illustrated.