Theodoxus stoicai, Neubauer & Harzhauser & Georgopoulou & Mandic & Kroh, 2014

Neubauer, Thomas A., Harzhauser, Mathias, Georgopoulou, Elisavet, Mandic, Oleg & Kroh, Andreas, 2014, Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda, Zootaxa 3785 (3), pp. 453-468 : 454-455

Theodoxus stoicai nom. nov.

Theodoxus (Calvertia) rugosa Pană 2003: 304 , pl. 2, figs 14–16 [non Neritodonta brusinai rugosa Pavlović, 1931 ].

Etymology. In honor of Marius Stoica (Bucharest University), who greatly contributed to the stratigraphic framework of the Dacian Basin from which this species derives.

Type locality. Sărăţel brook in Plopeasa valley , Prahova / Buzău, Romania .

Age. Lower Romanian (= Sienisian, upper Zanclean).

Holotype. Laboratory of Paleontology , Bucharest, coll. no. 669, L. P. B. III g.

Discussion. Pavlović (1931, p. 27) introduced " Neritodonta brusinai var. rugosa " for a Pontian taxon from

Serbia. According to Wenz (1929, p. 2934) Neritodonta Brusina, 1884 is a junior synonym of Calvertia Bourguignat, 1880, which is treated as a subgenus of Theodoxus (see also Papp 1953, p. 91). Therefore, Theodoxus (Calvertia) rugosa Pană, 2003 is a secondary homonym of Theodoxus (Calvertia) rugosus ( Pavlović, 1931) . Later, Milošević (1983, p.140) elevated the variety to the species level.

Additionally, the gender of the species epithet was erroneously introduced as feminine by Pană (2003), while Theodoxus is clearly masculine. In the figure caption the genus was wrongly given as " Theodoxis ".