{"title":"Reproduction and growth of Xerolenta obvia (Menke, 1828) (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Geomitridae) in laboratory conditions","authors":"E. Kuźnik-Kowalska, M. Baran, M. Proćków","doi":"10.12657/folmal.028.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.028.015","url":null,"abstract":"Laboratory observations made it possible to ascertain some life cycle parameters of Xerolenta obvia. The eggs are laid in clutches of 15–65 (mean 32) or rarely singly; they are partly calcified, milky white, oval or almost spherical, with a mean size of 1.37×1.46 mm; time to hatching is 11 to 28 days (mean 18); hatchlings have shells of 1.5–2.0 whorls (mean 1.7); hatching success is ca. 57%. Sexual maturity (first egg) is reached by snails at 4.25–5.2 whorls (mean 4.85) within 290–660 days. The average life span is two years. Neither uniparental reproduction nor egg or sibling cannibalism was observed. The life-history traits of X. obvia are compared with some xerophilous species of similar size. KEy words: Geomitridae; land snails; life history; growth rate; xerophilous snails","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132945464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalia Cebulka, B. Gołdyn, Z. Książkiewicz-Parulska
{"title":"Impact of light and dark on vertical migrations of Vertigo moulinsiana (Dupuy, 1849) (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Vertignidae)","authors":"Natalia Cebulka, B. Gołdyn, Z. Książkiewicz-Parulska","doi":"10.12657/folmal.028.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.028.016","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated vertical migration distances of Vertigo moulinsiana (Dupuy) in conditions of (1) 24-hour illumination and (2) 24-hour darkness. The experiments were carried out in the laboratory, at high and constant humidity (RH 100%), and 22 °C temperature. The snails were placed singly in 150 cm long, vertically oriented transparent plastic tubes (inner diameter: 8 mm). The tubes for the dark experimental variant were covered with aluminum foil, while those for the light variant were evenly illuminated with cold light lamps. A One-Way ANOVA showed that the snails from the 24 h light variant climbed up higher than those kept in the darkness, regardless","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126218971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two new species of the genus Indoartemon (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Streptaxidae) from Northwestern Vietnam","authors":"D. Sang, N. Son","doi":"10.12657/FOLMAL.028.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/FOLMAL.028.012","url":null,"abstract":"Two new species of the genus Indoartemon are described from Son La Province, Northwestern Vietnam. Indoartemon parallelilabris n. sp., has an oblique-heliciform shell with an axially deflected last whorl. Apertural dentition consists of one large parietal lamella, one triangular palatal lamella, and one distinct, knob-shaped columellar lamella. Indoartemon deformis n. sp., has an approximately triangular aperture, a wide and deep umbilicus, and apertural dentition consisting of one large parietal lamella and one strong palatal lamella. Additionally, new records of Indoartemon fuchsianus tonkinianus Jaeckel, 1950 are provided. Key worDS: Streptaxinae, taxonomy, endemic, Son La, Vietnam","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126875771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Kuźnik-Kowalska, Marta Frasunkiewicz, B. Pokryszko
{"title":"Terrestrial gastropods of the nature reserve Stary Zagaj and the town of skępe (dobrzyńskie Lakeland). The malacocoenosis structure as an indicator of anthropogenic influence in north-central Poland","authors":"E. Kuźnik-Kowalska, Marta Frasunkiewicz, B. Pokryszko","doi":"10.12657/folmal.028.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.028.011","url":null,"abstract":"Thirty nine species of terrestrial gastropods were recorded from the little studied Dobrzyńskie Lakeland (north-central Poland): the nature reserve Stary Zagaj and the town of Skępe (30 from the nature reserve, 27 from the town, 18 species in common, 9 town only, 12 reserve only). The number of species per site ranged from 8 to 21 (mean 13.88), the number of specimens from 38 to 1,224 (mean 347.7). The aim of the inventory was to fill the gaps in the distribution knowledge and to identify symptoms of anthropogenic influence on the malacocoenoses. Most species were euryoecious and/or widely distributed. The results were compared to other biogeographically and ecologically similar, but mostly less humanaffected areas. The studied habitats showed unbalanced dominance structure, small between-site similarity and small proportion of forest-dwellers, combined with the near-absence or absence of clausiliids and other tree-climbing and/or timber-dependent species. These seem to be crucial symptoms of anthropogenic changes in effect at present or in the past. KEy words: gastropods, nature reserve, N-C. Poland, anthropogenic influence","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133023316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sebastian Hofman, J. Grego, Aleksandra Rysiewska, A. Osikowski, A. Falniowski, Z. Erőss, Z. Fehér
{"title":"Phylogenetic relationships of Bracenica Radoman, 1973 (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea)","authors":"Sebastian Hofman, J. Grego, Aleksandra Rysiewska, A. Osikowski, A. Falniowski, Z. Erőss, Z. Fehér","doi":"10.12657/folmal.028.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.028.009","url":null,"abstract":"a bStract : Shells of the representatives of the genus Bracenica Radoman, 1973: B. spiridoni , B. vitojaensis and a new species, collected at the Kotor Bay (Montenegro) are presented. For the new species also the operculum (characteristic of the genus), penis and the female reproductive organs are described and figured. Considering the shell, operculum, and soft part morphology the new species belongs to the genus Bracenica . Cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) of mitochondrial DNA sequence of the new species places it in the subfamily Sadlerianinae Szarowska, 2006, and Bracenica is the sister genus of Sadleriana Clessin, 1890. COI sequences of Hauffenia plana Bole, 1961 clearly indicate its placement within the genus Bracenica .","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131558378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 35th Polish Malacological Seminar","authors":"B. Pokryszko","doi":"10.12657/folmal.028.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.028.008","url":null,"abstract":"S OF THE 35TH POLISH MALACOLOGICAL SEMINAR SPURTING – AN UNUSUAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE THICK-SHELLED MUSSEL (UNIO CRASSUS) DaViD c. alDriDGe1, adaM M. ĆMiel2, anna M. lipińska2, Manuel loPes-liMa3, ronalDo sousa4, aMilcar Teixeira5, kataRzyna zaJąc2, tadeusz zaJąc2 1Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2Instytut Ochrony Przyrody Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Kraków, Poland 3Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR/CIMAR), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 4Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CMBA), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal 5CIMO – Mountain Research Centre, School of Agriculture, Polytechnic Institute of Braganca, Braganca, Portugal Spurting is an unusual behaviour of the thickshelled mussel (Unio crassus), first observed in the early 20th c. The females move to the river bank and spurt streams of glochidia-containing water toward the river bed. No similar behaviour has been observed in any freshwater bivalve species to date. Our aim was to verify the hypothesis that it might serve increasing of the glochidia dispersal and thus the probability of host fish infection. In May 2018 in the Biała Tarnowska River near Lubaszowa we measured the length of the mussels, frequency of spurting, spurting distance, volume of the spurted stream of water, number of glochidia per spurt; we recorded the number and behaviour of fishes near the spurting mussels. Statistical analysis showed a significant correlation between the mussel length, spurt volume and maximum spurting distance. There was no statistically significant dependence between the mussel length and number of glochidia per spurt, or mussel length and spurting frequency. The number of glochidia per spurt grew exponentially with the volume. Ca. 70% of fishes near the spurting mussels reacted to their behaviour. Spurting may increase the probability of infection of the host fish, albeit its range is limited. Bivalve reproductive behaviour is mostly unknown, but it may prove crucial to explaining the dramatic drop in abundance of endangered freshwater species. In the case of the thick-shelled mussel impossibility to come on shore to spurt may be the reason for its disappearance from regulated rivers. ALIEN VS. PREDATOR: DO DIFFERENCES IN ATTACHMENT STRENGTH AND SHELL RESISTANCE EXPLAIN PREDATOR SELECTIVITY BETWEEN DREISSENA POLYMORPHA AND DREISSENA ROSTRIFORMIS BUGENSIS? csilla BaloGh1, 2, zoltán seRfőző1, 2, JaRosłaW kobak3 1Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Tihany, Hungary 2MTA Centre for Ecological Research, GINOP Sustainable Ecosystems Group, 8237 Tihany, Hungary 3Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Toruń, Poland The quagga mussel (D. rostriformis bugensis) has recently joined its long-established congener, the zebra mussel (D. polymorpha) in European waters. This is likely to result in forming n","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123740229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aquatic molluscs of the Zemplínská šírava dam reservoir (East Slovakia)","authors":"L. Beran","doi":"10.12657/folmal.028.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.028.006","url":null,"abstract":"The mollusc communities of the Zemplínská Šírava dam reservoir were studied in 2019. The reservoir, built in 1961–1965, is situated in the eastern part of Slovakia near the boundary with Ukraine; with its area of 33 km2 it is the second biggest dam reservoir in Slovakia. Nineteen species (13 gastropods, 6 bivalves) were recorded in the first more detailed inventory of its malacofauna. The mollusc communities in individual sites consisted of 8–14 species. The existence of littoral zone overgrown by macrophytes is important especially for populations of pulmonate snails while unionids were usually found on muddy or sandy bottom. Five non-native species were recorded. The abundant population of non-native D. polymorpha probably has a negative impact on unionids because of the shortage of suitable substrata (rocks, stones) for attachment, and as a result D. polymorpha uses shells of dead or live unionids.","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126292013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Páll‐Gergely, Y. Baykal, T. Stevens, D. Veres, U. Hambach
{"title":"A sinistral Helicopsis cf. instabilis (Rossmässler, 1838) from Romanian loess","authors":"B. Páll‐Gergely, Y. Baykal, T. Stevens, D. Veres, U. Hambach","doi":"10.12657/folmal.028.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.028.007","url":null,"abstract":"Here we report a single sinistral juvenile shell of Helicopsis cf. instabilis (Rossmassler), which was found in the Urluia loess section in south-eastern Romania. This 860 cm long profile comprises ...","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126653919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two new species of Clausiliidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Yunnan Province, southern China","authors":"J. Grego, M. Szekeres","doi":"10.12657/folmal.027.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.027.029","url":null,"abstract":"Formosana renzhigangi n. sp. and Serriphaedusa (Gibbophaedusa) gerberi n. sp. are described from Yunnan Province of southern China. Additionally, new occurrence records of Papilliphaedusa kunmingensis (Chen et Zhang, 1999) are provided. The composition and diversity of Yunnan’s Clausiliidae fauna, its relation to those of the adjacent zoogeographic regions, and the taxonomic status of the native genera Formosana Boettger, 1877 and Papilliphaedusa Nordsieck, 2003 are discussed. key words: Phaedusinae, taxonomy, zoogeography, endemism, East Asia","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114428396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terrestrial snails in flood deposits of the Beskid Mały range (Carpathians, southern Poland)","authors":"W. Alexandrowicz","doi":"10.12657/folmal.027.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.027.026","url":null,"abstract":"Long-term research on the malacofauna of the Beskid Mały, one of the ranges of the Western Beskidy Mts, was based on flood deposits of the streams cutting through the massif. Samples from limestone areas (called Andrychów Klippes) and those from the Żurawnica massif complemented the material. The total of ca. 400 samples yielded 78 species of terrestrial snails. The malacofauna was characterised in terms of its ecological and zoogeographical composition. The material provided the basis for determining the zones of occurrence and distribution of the component taxa within the Beskid Mały range. The ecological, zoogeographical and species diversity of the assemblages made it possible to distinguish four types of fauna, each connected with certain parts of the Beskid Mały range, which differ in their geological structure, relief and the degree of anthropogenic transformations.","PeriodicalId":309868,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123323444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}