NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS FRUTICICOLAHELD, 1838 (GASTROPODA, PULMONATA) FROM AFGHANISTAN

Abstract

In May 2021, one of the authors collected 22 specimens of land mollusks in the Khoja Mohammed Ridge,located in the northeastern part of Afghanistan. Shellis extraordinary, similar to Fruticicola perlucens(Rosen, 1903).However, having a number of differences,includinga finely grained sculpture of the embryonic whorls,smoothly ribbed last whorl,evenly turned edges oftheaperture, a strongly blurred white lip,anda clearly pronounced swollen base of the stylophore of this species,makes it describeofFruticicolapseudoperlucenssp. nov.as new species to science.

Keywords

• afghanistan
• habitat
• new species
• reproductive tract