New species of a tiny freshwater snail collected from a mountainous spring in Greece

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 22:30 in Biology & Nature

A new minute freshwater snail species belonging to the genus Daphniola was found in a spring on Mt. Parnassos, central Greece. The new species has a transparent conical-flat coiled shell, gray-black pigmented soft body and a black penis with a small colorless outgrowth on the left side near its base.

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