Meijeriella frivaldskyi
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Ordo: Pulmonata
Familia: Enidae
Genus: Meijeriella
Name
Meijeriella frivaldskyi (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Bulimus frivaldskyi L. Pfeiffer, Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie, 1847, 4 (12): 191–192 [Type locality: “prope Brussa Natoliae”].
- Bulimus fuscus L. Pfeiffer, Zeitschr. Malakozool., 1847, 4 (12): 192. Type locality: not given. Nomen nudum (in synonymy).
- Bulimus raynevalianus Bourguignat, Amen. Malac. 1855, 29: 128, pl. 8 fig. 5–9 (shell). Type locality: “les vignes des environs de Gallipoli, oú il vit sous les mottes de terre”.
- Buliminus friwaldskyi f. minor Westerlund, 1887, Fauna pal. Reg. Binnenconch., 3: 10. Type locality: not given.
- Buliminus trojanus Kobelt, Icon., 1893, (2) 6 (5–6): 81, pl. 171 fig. 1100 (shell).
Type locality
“im westlichen Theile der Troas”.
Type specimens
frivaldskyi: Syntype SMF 63750, “Bursa”, coll. Kobelt ex L. Pfeiffer; raynevalianus: Syntype MHNG 12106.
Specimens examined
Vil. Çanakkale, Truva, 10.06.2003, leg. B. A. Gümüş, NMBE 28357/3 (preserved).
Description of the genital organs
(Fig. 3, shell size of dissected animal: 10.6 × 3.7 mm). Penis without penial appendix, subdivided in a distal and proximal section; proximal section containing a centrally perforated verge; epiphallus very long, reaching ca. 5 × the length of penis, with a small caecum at its central part, a short flagellum present; penial retractor muscle attaching at the border of penis and epiphallus; vagina as long as penis, pedunculus with a long diverticulum largely surmounting the bursa copulatrix in length.
Remarks
The principal morphological structure of the genital organs does not differ from the holotype of Meijeriella canaliculata (cf. Bank 1985[1]) from the Island of Lesvos nor from that from the southern slope of the Kaz Dağı (Fig. 2). For this reason, the species Bulimus frivaldskyi is here confined to the genus Meijeriella and removed from the genus Ena, as already suspected by other authors (Bank 1985[1]: 42, Hausdorf 2001[2]). The shell of Meijeriella frivaldskyi differs from Meijeriella canaliculata by its rounded and not canaliculated last whorl; additionally, the majority of specimens of Meijeriella frivaldskyi differ by presence of a palatal swelling of the labium, which is said to miss in the Lesvian specimens of Meijeriella canaliculata (and which is also true for the Kaz Dağı population).
Taxon Treatment
- Gümüş, B; Neubert, E; 2012: New taxa of terrestrial molluscs from Turkey (Gastropoda, Pristilomatidae, Enidae, Hygromiidae, Helicidae) ZooKeys, 171: 17-37. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bank R (1985) Eine neue Enide von der griechischen Insel Mytilini (Gastropoda: Pupillacea). Heldia 1 (2): 41-44.
- ↑ Hausdorf B (2001) The genus Ena in Turkey, with remarks on its phylogenetic relationships (Gastropoda: Buliminidae). Journal of Natural History 35 (11): 1627-1638. doi: 10.1080/002229301317092360
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