Viviparus syriacus ( Pallary, 1939 )

Georgiev, Dilian & Glöer, Peter, 2013, A record of Viviparus syriacus (Gastropoda: Viviparidae) in Turkey, ZooNotes 2013 (48), pp. 1-3 : 1-2

Viviparus syriacus ( Pallary, 1939)

Diagnosis. Shell turreted with three spiral knobby carinae on the periphery of the whorls; on the last whorl two more sub-basal and four to five basal carinae are added; the umbilicus is closed, the mouth has a rounded parietal-palatal angulation ( Pallary 1939, Starobogatov 1985).

Known distribution. Pliocene of Eastern Greece and the Rhodes Island, Pleistocene of Syria, Lebanon, Israel ( Pallary, 1939, Starobogatov, 1985).

Material examined. Four shells, D. Georgiev leg.: 2 spec. coll. D. Georgiev, 2 spec. coll. P. Glöer ( Fig.1 ), 14.08.2009, the Asi Nehri River north of Antioch town, N36 14 54.0 E36 11 59.3, 127 m alt ( Fig. 2 ) .

Figures

Fig. 1. Shells of two specimens of Viviparus syriacus collected at the Asi Nehri river deposits, Turkey (coll. P. Glöer).

Fig. 2. Collection locality of Viviparus syriacus in Turkey.