Truncatophaedusa

Truncatophaedusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Genus:	Truncatophaedusa Majoros, Németh, L. & Szili-Kovács, 1994 [1]
Species:	T. evae
Binomial name
Truncatophaedusa evae Majoros, Németh, L. & Szili-Kovács, 1994

Truncatophaedusa is a monotypic land snail genus belonging to the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, all of which have a clausilium. The sole species belonging to the genus is Truncatophaedusa evae.

Ecology

The species inhabits a small area in the Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi. It is known from two localities:

• The valley of the river Dagomys near the village Nor Luis. The site is 10 km to the north of the village Dagomys, to the north of Sochi (locus typicus). The habitat is a mossy riverbank under a thick boxwood (Buxus) forest.
• The valley of the river Hosta, southeast of Sochi. The riverbank where the dirt road enters the village Rossvet from the south. ^[1]

Nordsieck (2007) ^[2] considers the genus Truncatophaedusa to be a subgenus of the genus Serrulina .

References

1. Majoros, Németh, L. & Szili-Kovács (1994). "Truncatophaedusa evae n. gen. n. sp.: A new representative of Serrulininae from the western Caucasus (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae).". Archiv für Molluskenkunde123(1/6): 123-126.
2. Nordsieck, Hartmut (2007). Worldwide Door Snails (Clausiliidae), recent and fossil. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. p. 214.