Leiostyla R.T. Lowe 1852
Creators: name: Ruud, A. Bank
name: Menkhorst, Henk P. M. G
name: Neubert, Eike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Lauriidae
Leiostyla

description: <i>Leiostyla</i> R.T. Lowe, 1852 <i>Leiostyla</i> R.T. Lowe, 1852: 276. Type species (by subsequent designation of Pilsbry, 1922: 67): <i>Pupa</i> [<i>Leiostyla</i>] <i>vincta</i> R.T. Lowe, 1852. The genus <i>Leiostyla</i> has a disjunct distribution pattern (Manganelli, Giusti &amp; Delle Cave, 1990) and has been split into two genera by Schileyko (1998a), namely <i>Leiostyla</i> and <i>Euxinolauria</i> Lindholm, 1924. In addition, Schileyko divided both genera into several subgenera. However, the split between <i>Leiostyla</i> and <i>Euxinolauria</i> is already problematic, as has been discussed by Gittenberger &amp; Pieper (1988), Hausdorf (1990), Pokryszko &amp; Waldén (1992) and Walther &amp; Hausdorf (2015). Therefore, we do not follow the system that was proposed by Schileyko, and continue to use <i>Leiostyla</i> in its classical sense. A considerable number of <i>Leiostyla</i> species live in Turkey, especially in the northeastern part of the country (Caucasian region). Some species have been described west of this region: <i>L. schweigeri</i> Götting, 1963; <i>L. superba</i> Hausdorf, 1990; the polytypic <i>L. paphlagonica</i> Hausdorf, 1990; <i>L. crassilabris</i> Hausdorf, 1990; and <i>L. zilchi</i> Subai, 1993. Because of the marked differences between <i>L</i>. <i>superba</i> and <i>L. zilchi</i> and the large geographical disjunction, we consider the latter a separate species, and not a subspecies of <i>L. superba</i> as was originally proposed by Subai (1993). Here we describe another subspecies of <i>L. paphlagonica</i>, and describe a new species that is morphologically related to <i>L. superba</i> and <i>L. zilchi</i>.
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 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.439745
description: {"references": ["LOWE, R. T., 1852. Brief diagnostic notices of new Maderan land shells. - The Annals and Magazine of natural History (2) 9 (50): 112 - 120; (2) 9 (52): 275 - 279.", "MANGANELLI, G., GIUSTI, F. &amp; DELLE CAVE, L., 1990. Notulae malacologicae, XLVIII. Lauriinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Orculidae / Pupillidae) from the Villafranchian of peninsular Italy. - Basteria 54 (1 / 3): 87 - 103.", "SCHILEYKO, A. A., 1998 a. Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 1. Achatinellidae, Amastridae, Orculidae, Strobilopsidae, Spelaeodiscidae, Valloniidae, Cochlicopidae, Pupillidae, Chondrinidae, Pyramidulidae. - Ruthenica, Supplement 2: 1 - 127.", "GITTENBERGER, E. &amp; PIEPER, H., 1988. Eine neue Leiostyla - Art aus dem Iran (Pulmonata: Pupillidae). - Archiv fur Molluskenkunde 119 (1 / 3): 65 - 71.", "HAUSDORF, B., 1990. Zur Kenntnis einiger Arten der Gattung Leiostyla Lowe aus NW-Anatolien (Gastropoda: Lauriinae). - Archiv fur Molluskenkunde 120 (1 / 3) [1989]: 47 - 56.", "POKRYSZKO, B. M. &amp; WALDEN, H., 1992. Anatomical, biometrical and phylogenetic studies on the genus Leiostyla (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). - Proceedings of the Tenth International Malacological Congress Tubingen 1989, volume 2 [1991]: 565 - 570.", "WALTHER, F. &amp; HAUSDORF, B., 2015. Leiostyla beatae n. sp. from eastern Georgia (Gastropoda: Lauriidae). - Zootaxa 3941 (1): 144 - 148.", "SUBAI, P., 1993. Neue Arten seltener Landschnecken aus Griechenland und aus der Turkei (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Cyclophoridae; Pulmonata: Pupillidae, Clausiliidae). - Archiv fur Molluskenkunde 122 (ZILCH- Festschrift): 63 - 69."]}