Journal Article

Description of a new genus and species as the first gastropod species from caves in Iran

Fatemi, Y., Malek Hosseini, M.-J., Falniowski, A., Hofman, S., Kuntner, M. and Grego, J.

Record Number:
5298
Year:
2019
Journal:
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies
Pages:
233-243
Volume:
2019
PMCID:
http://doi.org/10.4311/2019LSC0105
Abstract:
We report on a new stygobiont truncatelloid gastropod from the sulfidic ponds of Tashan Cave in the Zagros Mountains of Southwest Iran. The hydrogen sulfide habitat resembles those hitherto known for gastropods from sulfide-rich caves in Romania, Italy and Greece. The newly described genus Trogloiranica n. gen. with a newly described T. tashanica n. sp represent the first true stygobiont gastropods found in Iran. The phylogeny inferred from the mitochondrial (cytochrome oxidase subunit I) and the nuclear (histone 3) genomes, as well as anatomical evidence, place T. tashanica in the family Moitessieriidae Bourguignat, 1863. The new genus may represent an evolutionary relict from the post Miocene before the split of the families Moitessieriidae and Cochliopidae Tryon, 1866.
Times Cited:
4
Relevent Species:
Garra tashanensis Mousavi-Savet, Vatandoust, Fatemi and Eagderi 2016Garra typhlops (Bruun and Kaiser 1944) Farashi, Kaboli, Rezaei, Naghavi, Rahimian and Coad 2014Garra lorestanensis Mousavi-Sabet and Eagderi 2016Eidinemacheilus smithi (Greenwood 1976) Segherloo, Ghaedrahmati and Freyhof 2016