Radix macaleti, Neubauer, Thomas A., Harzhauser, Mathias, Kroh, Andreas, Elisavet, Georgopoulou & Mandic, Oleg, 2014

Neubauer, Thomas A., Harzhauser, Mathias, Kroh, Andreas, Elisavet, Georgopoulou & Mandic, Oleg, 2014, Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda. Part 2, ZooKeys 429, pp. 13-46 : 22

Taxon classification Animalia ORDO FAMILIA

Radix macaleti nom. n.

Radix socialis Macaleț, 2000: 252, pl. 2, figs 2-3 [non Limnaea socialis von Zieten, 1832].

Etymology.

In honor of Rodica Macaleț (Bucharest), who studied the mollusk fauna of the Dacian Basin.

Type locality.

Butuci near Sângeru, Prahova, Romania.

Age.

Latest Miocene to earliest Pliocene (Pontian, Portaferrian-Bosphorian).

Holotype.

Collection of the Geological Institute of Romania, coll. no. 19.546.

Discussion.

This species is a secondary homonym of Limnaea socialis von Zieten, 1832, of which the presently accepted and widely used combination is Radix socialis (e.g., Wenz 1923b, Gall 1972, Kókay 2006). Macaleț (2000) omitted the "sp. nov." in the heading of the description, which he indicated for all other species newly introduced by him in this paper, but gave it in the figure captions and the text and he designated a holotype. Radix macaleti is one of several similar species newly introduced by Macaleț (2000). Although the Lymnaeinae of the Dacian Basin are not well represented in the older literature, several of these new taxa may actually represent synonyms of one another, given the extreme variability of this clade (see, e.g., Glöer 2002, Welter-Schultes 2012). A revision of the entire group in the Dacian Basin would be necessary to clarify this issue.