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Euchondrus paucidentatus Gümüs & Neubert 2012

Description

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Shell medium sized, protoconch of 2 whorls, smooth; shell colour consistently brown; shell of broad conical shape with a rounded to semi-ovate aperture; whorls of the teleoconch well rounded, increasing regularly, the suture of medium depth with a whitish sutural line; surface of the teleoconch almost smooth, a faint sculpture of fine riblets or growth lines existing; aperture rounded, reinforced by a labial callus, apertural rims widely gaping on the parietum, reflected; dentition reduced, consisting of a cone shaped parietalis, a small columellaris, and two palatal denticles, with the lower denticle being always stronger if compared to the upper palatalis; columellar rim of the aperture widely reflected; umbilicus slit-like open, elongate.
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Burçin Aşkım Gümüş, Eike Neubert
bibliographic citation
Gümüş B, Neubert E (2012) New taxa of terrestrial molluscs from Turkey (Gastropoda, Pristilomatidae, Enidae, Hygromiidae, Helicidae) ZooKeys 171: 17–37
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Burçin Aşkım Gümüş
author
Eike Neubert
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Distribution

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So far, this new species is only known from its type locality.
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cc-by-3.0
copyright
Burçin Aşkım Gümüş, Eike Neubert
bibliographic citation
Gümüş B, Neubert E (2012) New taxa of terrestrial molluscs from Turkey (Gastropoda, Pristilomatidae, Enidae, Hygromiidae, Helicidae) ZooKeys 171: 17–37
author
Burçin Aşkım Gümüş
author
Eike Neubert
original
visit source
partner site
Zookeys