Open AccessON THE IDENTITY OF NERITINA BAETICA LAMARCK, 1822 AND NERITA MERIDIONALIS PHILIPPI, 1836 (GASTROPODA: NERITIDAE) FROM THE IBERIAN PENINSULA
Author(s) -
Peter Glöer
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ecologica montenegrina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.534
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2337-0173
pISSN - 2336-9744
DOI - 10.37828/em.2018.18.14
Subject(s) - synonym (taxonomy) , biology , peninsula , zoology , gastropoda , ecology , taxonomy (biology) , genus
When Mermod (1953) depicted the types of Theodoxus baeticus of Lamarck’s collection his photo did not display a pseudo-apophysis (peg). This led recent authors believe, that Th. baeticus is a synonym of Th. fluviatilis and Theodoxus meridionalis is the valid species (Alba et al. 2016: 55). In this paper I studied the syntypes of Th. baeticus as well as the syntypes of Th. meridionalis and demonstrated that in Th. baeticus a pseudo-apophysis exists and the opercula of Th. baeticus and Th. meridionalis are similar. Thus Th. baeticus is a good species and Th. meridionalis is a younger synonym of it. Therefore I can conclude that three Theodoxus spp., i.e., Th. fluviatilis, Th. baeticus and Th. valentinus occur in the Iberian Peninsula.