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Issue: Vol. 3161 No. 1: 16 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3161.1.4
Page range: 48–52
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 26

Vertigo shimochii Kuroda & Amano 1960 synonymized with Gastrocopta servilis (Gould, 1843) based on conchological and DNA sequence data

Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 USA
AIMS@UNM, 933 Bradbury SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 USA
AIMS@UNM, 933 Bradbury SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 USA
AIMS@UNM, 933 Bradbury SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 USA
AIMS@UNM, 933 Bradbury SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 USA
AIMS@UNM, 933 Bradbury SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106 USA
Invertebrates Division, Florida Museum of Natural History, PO Box 112710, Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA
Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aramaki–Aza–Aoba, Sendai, 980–8578, Japan
Mollusca Gastrocopta servilis

Abstract

Kuroda (1960) noted that his new species, Vertigo shimochii Kuroda & Amano, 1960, was distinct from other members of the genus in Japan by possessing a “relatively large and long shell with deep suture and much inflated whorls” (p. 77). While shell shape was noted to be similar to a Gastrocopta, they assigned the species to Vertigo based on its “shell color and lamella characteristics” (p. 77). Vertigo shimochii has since been considered endemic to the southern parts of Japan (The Environment Agency 1988; Minato 1988; Azuma 1995; Biodiversity Center of Japan 2002), and of near threatened status in the Kagoshima Prefecture Red Data Book (Kagoshima Prefectural Government 2003).

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