Genus Sphyradium Charpentier 1837

Sphyradium doliolum ( Bruguière 1792)

Bulimus doliolum Bruguière Encyclopédie méthodique: 351. (1792)

Sphyradium dobrogicum Grossu, new synonym Travaux du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle ‘’ Grigore Antipa’’ 28: 7-13. Bucureşti . [Dobrogea, département de Tulcea, près du Monastère Cocoş de la Forêt Luncaviţa .] (1986)

Sphyradium dobrogicum, - Grossu: Gastropoda Romaniae 2: 228-230, fig. 120. [ ‘’ pădurea Luncaviţa în apropierea Mănăstirei Cocoş, jud. Tulcea’’]. (1987)

Orcula dobrogica, - Welter-Schultes, European non-marine molluscs:143. (2012)

Remarks.

Sphyradium dobrogicum was described based on a single shell. The holotype could not be located in the collection of the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History (Bucharest) during a recent search (2012). It could still be in Grossu’s house (Oana Popa, pers. comm., 2011) but, at present, the holotype seems to be lost.

Bank (2011) and Welter-Schultes (2012) assigned the species to Orcula without supporting evidence. Sphyradium dobrogicum has a domed apex, a ribbed shell and very weak lamellae (see original description and drawing), indicating that it may represent a dwarf specimen of Sphyradium doliolum . We visited the type locality of Sphyradium dobrogicum in 2011 but found only Sphyradium doliolum .

Based on available information we suggest using Sphyradium dobrogicum as a synonym of Sphyradium doliolum .