Vestia lazarovii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Clausilioidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Heterobranchia Infraclassis: Euthyneura Cohors: Tectipleura Subcohors: Panpulmonata Superordo: Eupulmonata Ordo: Stylommatophora Subordo: Helicina Infraordo: Clausilioidei Superfamilia: Clausilioidea

Familia: Clausiliidae
Genus: Vestia
Species: Vestia lazarovii

Name

• Vestia lazarovii Dedov, 2012: fig 3

Holotype: SMF 336343.

Type locality: Republic of Macedonia, Baba (= Pelister) Mountains near Kopanke hut, 41°01'59.7'N, 21°13'09.0'E, 1639 m a.s.l., Pinus peuce forestecotone, under logs of dead wood and fallen trunks, 03. September 2002, leg. S. Lazarov, (2 empty shells).

Etymology: This species is named after the Bulgarian arachnologist Dr. Stoyan Lazarov-Panagyrsky, B. A. S., Institute of Zoology, who was the first to collect this species.

References

• Dedov, I. 2012. Two new and rare mountain door-snails (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae) from high mountain areas in Macedonia. ZooKeys 168: 45-53. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.168.1919 .