Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Pages: 159-170

Journal: Zoosystematics and Evolution

Volume number: 88

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 1860-0743

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/zoos.201200014

Publisher: Pensoft Publishers

Abstract: 
Acroloxus egirdirensis, a new species (Pulmonata: Hygrophila: Acroloxidae) is described based on material collected in the littoral zone of Lake Eirdir, Turkey. The limpet has been found only at the type locality. The shell morphology and body shape of A. egirdirensis are similar to the widespread A. lacustris (Linnaeus, 1758), A. oblongus (Lightfoot, 1786) and A. shadini Kruglov et Starobogatov, 1991. Compared to the first two species, A. egirdirensis has a higher teleoconch, the nuclei in the pigment cells of the mantle are large, and the preputium length is almost identical to that of the penis sheath. The new species differs from A. shadini in the shape of the left shell slope. The shell apex in A. egirdirensis is closer to the posterior apertural edge than in any other European species. The species status is corroborated by DNA data of the mitochondrial gene fragment cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) ((c) 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

Harvard Citation style: Shirokaya, A., Kebapci, U., Hauffe, T. and Albrecht, C. (2012) Unrecognized biodiversity in an old lake: a new species of Acroloxus Beck, 1837 (Pulmonata, Hygrophila, Acroloxidae) from Lake Egirdir, Turkey, Zoosystematics and Evolution, 88(2), pp. 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoos.201200014

APA Citation style: Shirokaya, A., Kebapci, U., Hauffe, T., & Albrecht, C. (2012). Unrecognized biodiversity in an old lake: a new species of Acroloxus Beck, 1837 (Pulmonata, Hygrophila, Acroloxidae) from Lake Egirdir, Turkey. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 88(2), 159-170. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoos.201200014