Bithynia starmuehlneri
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Ordo: Sorbeoconcha
Familia: Bithyniidae
Genus: Bithynia
Name
Bithynia starmuehlneri Glöer & Pešić, 2012 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Bulimus (Bithynia) leachi troschelii: Starmühlner and Edlauer 1957[1], non troschelii Paasch, 1842 (synonymy)
Type locality
Border of Lake Urmia, W Azarbayian, 1949 leg. Starmühlner.
Holotype
NHMW (50940): shell height 10.3 mm, width 5.6 mm.
Paratypes
9 ex. from the type locality.
Etymology
Named after Ferdinand Starmühlner, who collected this species in 1949.
Description
The whitish shell is elongated conical with 6.5 whorls, which are convex with a deep suture and a small and acute apex. The umbilicus is open. The aperture is ovate. The margin of the aperture is, from lateral view, straight. The surface is smooth with fine growth lines. Shell height 8.2 – 10.3 mm, width 4.6 – 6.4 mm.
Differentiating features
This slim species isthe largest Bithynia sp. known in Iran. It can be easily distinguished from the other Bithynia spp. by the larger dimensions of elongated shell with the stepped whorls and the not angled aperture.
Remarks
This species has been misidentified by Starmühlner and Edlauer (1957)[1] with Bithynia troschelii.
Original Description
- Glöer, P; Pešić, V; 2012: The freshwater snails (Gastropoda) of Iran, with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species ZooKeys, 219: 11-61. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Starmühlner F, Edlauer A (1957) Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949/50 (Mit Berücksichtigung der Ausbeute der Österreichischen Iran-Expedition 1956): Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna des Iran. Sitzungsberichte der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Abteilung I, 166 (9/10): 435–494.
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