Descriptions of new and little-known land snail taxa from Turkey, and establishment of a new genus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Lauriidae, Enidae and Vitrinidae)
Creators: name: Ruud, A. Bank
name: Menkhorst, Henk P. M. G
name: Neubert, Eike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: <i>Amphiscopus</i> Westerlund, 1887 <i>Amphiscopus</i> Westerlund, 1887: 3, 55. Type species (by subsequent designation of Westerlund, 1903: 104): <i>Pupa sturmii Küster, 1852</i>. This genus is endemic for Turkey. It is composed of <i>A. sturmii</i> (Küster, 1852) (erroneously spelled as <i>sturmi</i> by Zilch [1959: 180 fig. 619] and Schileyko [1998b: 211 fig. 260A-C]), <i>A. substurmii</i> (Retowski, 1886) and the below described <i>A. moolenbeeki</i>. The anatomy of <i>A. sturmii</i> has been described by Schileyko (1998b: 209-201, fig. 260B- C). Welter-Schultes (2012: 177) placed A. <i>sturmii</i> as a species in the genus <i>Chondrula</i>, whereas he (2012: 194) placed <i>A. substurmii</i> (Retowski, 1887) in the genus <i>Multidentula</i>. This is remarkable, as <i>Amphiscopus</i> belongs to the tribus Enini, whereas <i>Chondrula</i> and <i>Mutidentula</i> belong to the tribes Chondrulini and Multidentulini, respectively. Furthermore, Welter-Schultes mentioned that <i>Imparietula microdon</i> Schütt, 1995, is a synonym of <i>substurmii</i>, but <i>microdon</i> is in reality a close relative of <i>Pseudochondrula seductilis</i> (Rossmässler, 1837) (tribus Enini). Retowski (1886: 34) described <i>substurmii</i> from deposition of the Black Sea washed ashore the Crimea ("auf das Strandgebiet zwischen Theodosia und Sudak"); it actually lives in Turkey.
description: Published as part of <i>Ruud, A. Bank, Henk P. M. G Menkhorst &amp; Eike Neubert, 2016, Descriptions of new and little-known land snail taxa from Turkey, and establishment of a new genus (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Lauriidae, Enidae and Vitrinidae), pp. 5-30 in Basteria 80 (1)</i> on page 20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.439745
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