A morphological gap for Iberian Zospeum filled: Zospeum percostulatum sp. n. (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Carychiidae) a new species from Asturias (Spain)

By

Alonso, Álvaro
Prieto, Carlos Enrique
Quiñonero-Salgado, Sergio
Rolán, Emilio

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

Subterranean Biology

Volume

25

Pages

35-48

Subjects

cave-dwelling species , ecologia , Ecology , Especie cavernícola , gasterópodo troglobio , microgasterópodo , microgastropod , shell variability , troglobiont gastropod , variabilidad conquiológica

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.25.23364

 

Abstract

Zospeumpercostulatumsp. n. from Cueva de La Herrería (Llanes, Asturias) is described. It is characterized by a relatively large shell (1.4–1.8 mm height), conical, with ovate aperture, continuous peristome and thickened parietal callus; shell costulate except two first whorls; without any sort of inner formations. It is the first clearly costulate Iberian species, filling a morphological gap in the Iberian clade, and the largest species from the Cantabrian region, being the first species described from Asturias.