13. Ampullaceana fontinalis (Studer, 1820) Figs 7G, H; 8D; Table 2

Limneus fontinalis Studer 1820: 27.

Lymnaea peregra - Hubendick 1951: 146, figs 1, 9 (partim).

Lymnaea (Peregriana) fontinalis - Kruglov and Starobogatov 1983b: 1469, fig. 2(16), 1993b: 166, fig. 6B; Khokhutkin et al. 2009: 92, fig. 40; Andreeva et al. 2010: 135, fig. 70.

Ampullaceana fontinalis - Aksenova et al. 2018a: 4.

TL.

Switzerland (Studer 1820).

Lectotype.

Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, Switzerland (see Forcart 1957).

Shell ovate-conical, with prominent, but relatively-low spire and moderately-inflated body whorl. Praeputium and penis sheath light-coloured, their lengths are almost equal, though the praeputium is typically slightly longer (see Fig. 8D). The mean values of ICA slightly exceed 1.0 (Kruglov 2005; see also Table 2). According to genetic data, A. fontinalis is distributed in Europe, from Switzerland eastward to south of the European Russia, as well as in Turkey (Aksenova et al. 2018a). The previous recordings of this species from the Urals and Siberia (Kruglov and Starobogatov 1993b; Khokhutkin et al. 2009; Andreeva et al. 2010) require molecular confirmation.

Taxonomic remark.

This European species of radicine snails was not listed as valid by most authors (Hubendick 1951; Glöer 2002; Welter-Schultes 2012), except by the Russian malacologists (Kruglov and Starobogatov 1983b, 1993b; Khokhutkin et al. 2009; Andreeva et al. 2010). Aksenova et al. (2018a) have shown that specimens identified as Lymnaea (Peregriana) fontinalis sensu Kruglov & Starobogatov, 1993 form a species-rank clade, sister to A. lagotis . Shells of A. fontinalis sensu Kruglov and Starobogatov (1993b), studied by us, were similar to the lectotype shell illustrated by Forcart (1957) [see Fig. 7G, H]. The presence of A. fontinalis in Switzerland (where its type locality lies) has been confirmed molecularly (Aksenova et al. 2018). This species is morphologically similar to A. lagotis, but may be distinguished by a lower spire and more inflated body whorl.