A new hydrobiid species (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from insular Greece

By

Radea, Canella
Lampri, Paraskevi Niki
Bakolitsas, Konstantinos
Parmakelis, Aristeidis

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

Zoosystematics and evolution

Volume

97

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

111--119

Subjects

freshwater diversity , Lefkada Island , taxonomy , valvatiform Hydrobiidae

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.60254

 

Abstract

Daphniola dione sp. nov., a valvatiform hydrobiid gastropod from Western Greece, is described based on conchological, anatomical and molecular data. D. dione is distinguished from the other species of the Greek endemic genus Daphniola by a unique combination of shell and soft body character states and by a 7–13% COI sequence divergence when compared to congeneric species. The only population of D. dione inhabits a cave spring on Lefkada Island, Ionian Sea.