Description
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shell small, spindle-shaped; shell colour brownish; suture deep; teleoconch striated, finely ribbed on the last whorls of the shell; neck with pronounced basal keel; aperture pear-shaped, in some specimens a slight palatal thickening present situated in parallel to its edge; well developed basal canal, often with a short basalis on its left margin; superior lamella connected with spiralis through a slight depression in the contact zone (or both situated very close, not connected); inferior lamella (columellaris) well developed running steeply nearby parietal side; lunella in dorsal position, sometimes reduced to a pale thickening or short straight plica; principal plica well developed; upper palatalis present, very short; subcolumellar lamella long and visible from outside the aperture, often forming part of the right margin of the basal canal; clausilium partly visible from outside the aperture, oval-orthogonal, distally with a weak edge.
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- Ivaylo Kanev Dedov
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- Dedov I (2012) Two new and rare mountain door-snails (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae) from high mountain areas in Macedonia ZooKeys 168: 45–53
- author
- Ivaylo Kanev Dedov
Distribution
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Euxinella alpinella sp. n. occurs in open alpine terrains on limestone, up to 2000 m a.s.l. Until now, the species is known only from its type locality, Nidzhe Mountains, in the southern part of the Republic of Macedonia.
- license
- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- Ivaylo Kanev Dedov
- bibliographic citation
- Dedov I (2012) Two new and rare mountain door-snails (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae) from high mountain areas in Macedonia ZooKeys 168: 45–53
- author
- Ivaylo Kanev Dedov