Zospeum frauenfeldii (FREYER, 1855)

Inäbnit, Thomas, Jochum, Adrienne, Kampschulte, Marian, Martels, Gunhild, Ruthensteiner, Bernhard, Slapnik, Rajko, Nesselhauf, Claudia & Neubert, Eike, 2019, An integrative taxonomic study reveals carychiid microsnails of the troglobitic genus Zospeum in the Eastern and Dinaric Alps (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiinae), Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19 (2), pp. 135-177 : 160-161

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scientific name

Zospeum frauenfeldii
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Zospeum frauenfeldii View in CoL clade

Distribution Known from the northern Dinarides, with genetic records extending from southern Slovenia southwards to the Ličko-senjska region in Croatia and the region of Sanski Most in northern Bosnia (Supplementary Fig. S12). It has been reported from the isolated karst regions in eastern Slovenia ( Slapnik 1994).

The resolved topologies of both the Bayesian tree and the Consensus tree are mostly identical ( Fig. 3 View Fig , violet part). The Bayesian tree was not able to resolve the base of the Z. frauenfeldii clade, leaving four clades (1. Two specimens from Tounjčica, 2. A specimen from Jopićeva špilja, 3. Z. frauenfeldii & Z. bucculentum , 4. Z. pagodulum & Z. robustum ) with unkown relationship affinity. The ML Consensus tree was able to resolve the base of the clade, though the support threshold was set at only 20%. The consensus tree was not able to position the specimen from Hrustovača špilja. Support values within this clade are often very low in both trees.

The species delimitations (Table 5) differ considerably from each other. Here we follow the delimitation of BPP (Table 5: F), as it is the delimitation method that is the most congruent with both trees and the only one which included all studied specimens and all markers.

Morphology Shell conical, translucent when fresh; shell surface ribbed, smooth and everything in between; aperture taller than wide, parietal shield generally well-differentiated from the lip; parietalis present in the aperture; columellaris generally starting behind the aperture, continuing for approximately half a whorl into the shell, sometimes completely absent. Can not be reliably separated from the Z. alpestre clade and the Z. obesum clade; tends to be taller than the former and does not usually have the expanded last whorl seen in most specimens of the latter. Differs from the Z. pretneri clade by its larger size and larger aperture in relation to shell size. Differs from the Z. spelaeum clade by the absence of the angularis and (in most cases) the palatalis.

Both PCAs, as well as the CVA (Supplementary Fig. S6 View Fig ), were not able to separate any of the species defined by the genetic analyses here. None of the LDAs conducted in this clade were able to clearly distinguish between any of the accepted species.

Zospeum frauenfeldii ( FREYER, 1855)

Figures 8a–e, S View Fig 16e–g, S17e–h

1855 Carychium frauenfeldii FREYER, Sitzungsber. mathem.-naturw. Cl. kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 15 (1): 19, pl. [1] fig. 3a–c (shell) [Im Jahre 1853 von den Herren Franz und Matthias ERJAVEC zuerst in der Grotte zu Podpeč bei Guttenfeld in Unterkrain gesammelt (Podpeška jama, Dobrepolje); dann von den Herren SKUBIC und Franz ERJAVEC in der Grotte bei Duplice nächst Weichselberg in Unterkrain aufgefunden] .

1994 Zospeum frauenfeldi osolei SLAPNIK, Razpr. Slov. Akad. Znan. Umetn., Cl. IV , 35 (13): 312–313, map 6 (distribution), pl. 6 fig. a–c, pl. 7 fig. a (shell) [Osoletova jama in Dešen nad Moravčami].

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Ellobiida

Family

Ellobiidae

Genus

Zospeum

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