A new species of hydrobiid snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from central Greece

Abstract

A new minute valvatiform species belonging to the genus Daphniola Radoman, 1973, Daphniola eptal-ophos sp. n., from mountain Parnassos, Greece is described. Te new species has a transparent valvatiform-planispiral shell, wide and open umbilicus, grey-black pigmented soft body and head and a black penis with a small colorless outgrowth on the left side near its base. A comparative table of shell dimensions and a key to the species known for this endemic genus for Greece are provided.