Bythinella amira, Glöer & Hirschfelder, 2020

Glöer, Peter & Hirschfelder, Hans-Jürgen, 2020, Some new Bythinella spp. from southern Greece (Gastropoda: Bythinellidae), Ecologica Montenegrina 30, pp. 60-67 : 65

Bythinella amira n. sp. [ fig. 2.7 ]

Type locality: Greece, Attica, Kithira Island, Karavas, spring-fed brook in Amir Ali , N 36°20'43.9" / E 22°56'57.4", 110 m a.s.l., 19.10.2019, leg. Hans-Jürgen Hirschfelder.

Type Material: Holotype ( ZMH 140688 ): Shell height 2.5 mm, shell width 1.4 mm . Paratypes from type locality: ZMH (140689/2), coll. Hirschfelder (8 adult, 6 subadult) .

Etymology: The new species is named after the small village and ravine Amir Ali.

Description:

Shell: The shell is cylindrical to slightly conical with a small rounded apex. The 4.5-5 whorls are convex with a deep suture. The body whorl takes about 0.7 of shell height. The aperture is elongated ovate, with a thickened peristome. The umbilicus is closed. The shell is 2.3-2.6 mm high and 1.3-1.4 mm broad and all specimens are encrusted with blackish-brown Fe/Mn.

Differentiating characters: see Bythinella kithiraensis n. sp.

Associated species: Pseudamnicola magdalenae Falniowski, 2016 (type locality), Gyraulus sp. and Melanopsis buccinoidea (Olivier, 1801) .

Distribution: Only known from type locality in northern Kithira Island.

Figures

Figure 2. The new Bythinella spp. from Greece. 1: Bythinella eleousae n. sp., 2: B. kastaliae n. sp., 3: B. taygetensis n. sp., 4: B. kambosensis n. sp., 5: B. alexpeteri n. sp., 6: B. ellinikae n. sp., 7: B. amira n. sp., 8: B. kithiraensis n. sp.