Sphincterochila candidissima

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Taxonavigation

Ordo: Pulmonata
Familia: Sphincterochilidae
Genus: Sphincterochila

Name

Sphincterochila candidissima (Draparnaud, 1801) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile

Type specimens

candidissima: syntype NHMW 14810, D = 17.95 mm [no original label left, type locality: France, «en Provence et dans le Comtat»; maxima: not identifiable in MHNG; tunetana: MHNG 3896, D= 20.0 mm.

Material examined

Bizerte: Aïn Ezzommita, N 36.87628, E 9.64936, 23.12.08, coll. Abbes/8; Barrage El Khadhra, N 36.16681, E 10.06214, 14.12.08, coll. Abbes/4; Barrage El Khirba, N 37.16354, E 10.0955, 21.02.08, coll. Abbes/6; Utique, N 37.04007, E 1003244, 02.03.05, coll. Abbes/9; Nabeul: NEUB 02879, Wadi NE of the city, 36°28'N 10°45'50"E, 26.-31.12.1993, leg. B. & R. Kinzelbach; Ariana, Djebel Bejewa, N 37.03027, E 10.027040, 11.04.08, coll. Abbes/12; Ichkeul National Park, N 37. 11255, E 9.34953, 04.03.07, coll. Abbes/7; Tunis: NEUB 02878, Tunis, 20 km S of Hamamet, 02.03.1993, leg. J. Gugel; Ben Arous: Djebel Boukornine, N 36.4122, E 10.2125, 4.01.07, coll. Abbes/8; Djebel Reças, N 36.59382, E 10.3194, 09.10.08, coll. Abbes/5; Nabeul: Assomaa, N 36.52552, E 10.77991, 04.02.09, coll. Abbes/3; Korbos, N 36.82950, E 10.57071, 03.02.09, coll. Abbes/8; Zaghouan: Djebel Zaghouan, N 36.37543, E 10.11868, August 2008, coll. Abbes/9; Djebel Zriba, N 36.37, E 10.11, 20.08.08, coll. Abbes/1; Beja, Nefza, N 97.0041, E 9.08434, 4.4.05, coll. Abbes/2; Jendouba, Ouechteta, N 36.96445, E 9.01706, 24.12.08, coll. Abbes/4; El Kef: Djebel Boujeber, N 35.73791, E 8.27292, 26.12.08, coll. Abbes/3; Sousse, Tekrouna, N 36,085749, E 10,182551, 25.08.2008, coll. Abbes/2; Siliana: Ain tejra, N 36.26, E 9.43, 07.11.08, coll. Abbes/16; Kairouan: Aïn Chrichira, N 35.63908, E 9.80950, 14.12.08, coll. Abbes/9; Sbikha, N 35.98503, E 10.03106, 14.12.08, coll. Abbes/17; Djebel Serj, N 36.04555, E 9.63311, 28.12.08, coll. Abbes/2; Mehdia, Dowwira, N 35.26905, E 11.09773, 19.03.09, coll. Abbes/4; Sidi Bouzid: Bouhedma National Park, N 34.185722, E 245520, 11.05.08, coll. Abbes/10; NEUB 02875, Jebel Bou Hedma, 15-18.03.1993, leg. J. Gugel; NEUB 02876, Sabkhat Mecheguig, ca. 50 km S Kairouan, 02.03.1993, leg. J. Gugel; Kasserine: Djebel Chaambi, N 35.10139, E 8.40486, 30.11.08, coll. Abbes/8; Table de Jugurtha, 20.05.09, coll. Abbes/11; Kebili: NEUB 02874, big erg close to Ksar Rhilane, 32°59'N 9°38'E, 09.03.1993, leg. J. Gugel; NEUB 02880, Kebili, 30 km S of the city, 33°29'N, 9°02'E, 12.03.1993, leg. J. Gugel; Tataouine: NEUB 02877, Tataouine, 32°56'N, 10°27'E, 05.03.1993, leg. J. Gugel; NEUB 02881, Gouvernorat de Tataouine, Ramadah, 32°19'N, 10°24'E, 05.03.1993, leg. J. Gugel.

Diagnosis

Shell medium sized, helicoid, globose, shell walls thick, external surface slightly wrinkled, last whorl rounded, aperture rounded, umbilicus closed.

Description

(Figs 2–4). Shell medium sized, helicoid, globose, spire slightly depressed; shell colour white; protoconch consisting of two smooth whorls; shell walls thick, teleoconch of six nearly flattened whorls, last whorl large, rounded and sometimes inconspicuously keeled and slightly descending below the periphery of the shell; suture shallow to moderately deep; upper teleoconch surface smooth or with fine irregularly shaped wrinkles; aperture dorsoventrally depressed; peristome discontinuous, only slightly thickened; umbilicus closed by a thick reflection of the columellar peristome. — Measurement (n = 20). H = 17.3 mm ± 2.46; D = 20.57 mm ± 1.33.

Anatomy of genital organs

(Fig. 5A). Penis thick with a short and blunt penial coecum, epiphallus a long and cylindrical slender tube reaching 4 × the length of the penis, penial papilla missing; flagellum relatively long; Mrp inserts at the distal third of the epiphallus.
Stimulator gland large, stimulator appendix branches off in a basal position; stimulator duct short, pointing into the large genital atrium with a small papilla.
Vagina very short and slender; pedunculus reaching half of the lenght of the whole bursa copulatric complex, diverticulum short and thickened, bursa copulatrix a well rounded vesicle.

Geographic range

This is a species of western Mediterranean distribution (Giusti et al. 1995[6]), but its actual presence in NW Africa has to be corroborated by a serious investigation of all specimens available including dissections of preserved specimens. Its hitherto known distribution in Tunisia is given in Fig. 1.

Remarks

The species Sphincterochila baetica (Rossmässler, 1839), which was described from Spain (between Almeria and Venta del Pobre) has been reported for Northwestern Africa from Morocco to Tunisia (Bourguignat 1863[1]; Letourneux and Bourguignat 1887[4]; Morlet 1881[7]; Rour et al. 2002[8]). We here figure one syntype of Helix baetica (SMF 7669, Fig. 6) to show the differences between the two species: next to the size difference, shells of Sphincterochila candidissima are usually smooth or show a fine sculpture of small wrinkles, while Sphincterochila baetica has much stronger and coarse wrinkles or is even malleated, particularly on the upper whorls; in addition, shells of Sphincterochila candidissima ususally have a rounded periphery of the last whorl (exceptions see our Figs 3 and 4), while Sphincterochila baetica shows a bluntly angulated last whorl. The shell of Leucochroa baetica var. tunetana might mislead to an identification as Sphincterochila baetica as it is quite large and shows the angulation. However, it has the typical finely striated surface sculpture of Sphincterochila candidissima, and thus can be synonymised with this species. The collection of Bourguignat in Geneva did not contain any specimen from northwestern Africa that could positively be identified with Sphincterochila baetica. However, his collection is particularly weak concerning shells from Morocco, so we are not able at the moment to judge about records from Algeria or Morocco. So far, all specimens we have seen from Tunisia can be identified with Sphincterochila candidissima.
The morphological details of the genital organs of dissected specimens from Tunisia compare very well with those presented by Forcart (1972[9]: figs 8, 9) from southern France and Giusti et al. (1995)[6] from Malta.

Taxon Treatment

  • Abbes, I; Nouira, S; Neubert, E; 2011: Sphincterochilidae from Tunisia, with a note on the subgenus Rima Pallary, 1910 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) ZooKeys, 151: 1-15. doi

Other References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bourguignat J (1863–1864) Malacologie de l‘Algérie ou histoire naturelle des animaux mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles recueillis jusqu‘à ce jour dans nos possessions du nord de l‘Afrique. Paris (Challamel ainé) 1: fasc. 1: 1–80, pls I-VIII [May 1863]; fasc. 2: 81–192, pl. IX, X, XIII-XVIII [June 1863]; fasc. 3: 193–294 pls XI, XII, XIX-XXXII [Nov. 1963]; [described species extracted]2: fasc. 4: 1–144, pl. I-V, VII [Jan. 1864]; fasc. 5: 145–232, pl. VI, VII, IX-XI, XV, XVI, XVIII-XXVI [Apr. 1864]; fasc. 6: I-XII [to be bound prior to fasc. 1] [with replacement pages 9–32 in fasc. 1] 233–380, pls. XII-XIV, XVII [Dec. 1864].
  2. ↑ Bourguignat J (1868) Histoire malacologique de la Régence de Tunis. Bouchard-Huzard, Paris, 36 pp, 1 pl.
  3. ↑ Issel A (1885) Materiali per lo studio della fauna tunisina raccolti da G. e L. Doria. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 12: 5-15.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Letourneux A, Bourguignat J R (1887) Prodrome de la malacologie terrestre et fluviatile de la Tunisie. Imprimerie nationale, Paris, 166 pp.
  5. ↑ Ktari M, Rezig M (1976) La faune malacologique de la Tunisie septentrionale. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de la Tunisie 11: 31-74.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Giusti F, Manganelli G, Schembri P (1995) The non-marine molluscs of the Maltese Islands. Torino, 607 pp.
  7. ↑ Morlet L (1881) Annexe au rapport sur la mission de Chott. Archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires série 3, 7: 393–400.
  8. ↑ Rour E, Chahlaoui A, van Goethem J (2002) Etat actuel des connaissances de la malacofaune terrestre du Maroc. Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Biologie 72: 189-198.
  9. ↑ Forcart L (1972) Systematische Stellung und Unterteilung der Gattung Sphincterochila Ancey. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 102(4/6): 147–164.

Images

Figure 1. Distribution of Sphincterochila species in Tunisia ● Sphincterochila candidissima (Draparnaud, 1801)  Sphincterochila tunetana (Pfeiffer, 1850).
Figure 1. Distribution of Sphincterochila species in Tunisia ● Sphincterochila candidissima (Draparnaud, 1801)  Sphincterochila tunetana (Pfeiffer, 1850). 
Figures 2–4. Sphincterochila candidissima (Draparnaud, 1801) 2 syntype ex NMHW, France, probably from the Provence 3 syntype of Leucochroa baetica var. tunetana Letourneux & Bourguginat, 1887, MHNG 3896, Tunisia, Guelaat es Snam 4 NMBE, Ain Tejra, 07.11.2008, leg. I. Abbes.
Figures 2–4. Sphincterochila candidissima (Draparnaud, 1801) 2 syntype ex NMHW, France, probably from the Provence 3 syntype of Leucochroa baetica var. tunetana Letourneux & Bourguginat, 1887, MHNG 3896, Tunisia, Guelaat es Snam 4 NMBE, Ain Tejra, 07.11.2008, leg. I. Abbes. 
Figure 5. Anatomical details. A Sphincterochila candidissima, situs of genital organs. B–D Sphincterochila tunetana. B C situs of genital organs of two specimens D Detail stimulator gland showing the large stimulator papilla pointing into the atrial lumen. – Figs A–C at the same scale. Figure 5E. Sphincterochila cariosa (Olivier, 1801). Situs of genital organs (shell illustrated in Fig. 10); length of complete situs 14.9 mm.
Figure 5. Anatomical details. A Sphincterochila candidissima, situs of genital organs. B–D Sphincterochila tunetana. B C situs of genital organs of two specimens D Detail stimulator gland showing the large stimulator papilla pointing into the atrial lumen. – Figs A–C at the same scale. Figure 5E. Sphincterochila cariosa (Olivier, 1801). Situs of genital organs (shell illustrated in Fig. 10); length of complete situs 14.9 mm. 
Figure 6. Sphincterochila baetica (Rossmässler, 1839), syntype SMF 7669, Spain, between Almeria and Venta del Pobre, coll. Rossmässler (= Orig. Icon. 812).
Figure 6. Sphincterochila baetica (Rossmässler, 1839), syntype SMF 7669, Spain, between Almeria and Venta del Pobre, coll. Rossmässler (= Orig. Icon. 812). 
Figures 7–10. 7, Sphincterochila tunetana (Pfeiffer, 1850), NMBE, Tunisia, Ischkeul, 08.01.2004, leg. I. Abbes 8 Sphincterochila tunetana (Pfeiffer, 1850), SMF 58859, Achkeul [= Ischkeul], ex coll. Pallary 9 Xeroleuca degenerans (Mousson, 1876), syntype ZMZ 502781, Morocco, “Ain Umest westlich der Maroccoebenen, coll. Mousson ex Fritsch 1873” 10 Sphincterochila cariosa (Olivier, 1801), Libanon, Deir el Kamar, 33.7°N 35.59°E, leg. N. Sayar, 4.10.2009 (shell of anatomically investigated specimen).
Figures 7–10. 7, Sphincterochila tunetana (Pfeiffer, 1850), NMBE, Tunisia, Ischkeul, 08.01.2004, leg. I. Abbes 8 Sphincterochila tunetana (Pfeiffer, 1850), SMF 58859, Achkeul [= Ischkeul], ex coll. Pallary 9 Xeroleuca degenerans (Mousson, 1876), syntype ZMZ 502781, Morocco, “Ain Umest westlich der Maroccoebenen, coll. Mousson ex Fritsch 1873” 10 Sphincterochila cariosa (Olivier, 1801), Libanon, Deir el Kamar, 33.7°N 35.59°E, leg. N. Sayar, 4.10.2009 (shell of anatomically investigated specimen). 
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