Ecrobia ventrosa

Wesselingh, Frank, Poorten, Jan Johan ter, Kijashko, Pavel, Albrecht, Christian, Anistratenko, Olga Yu, Frolov, Pavel, Gándara, Alberto Martinez, Gittenberger, Arjan, Gogaladze, Aleksandre, Mikhail Karpinsky, Popa, Luis, Sands, Arthur F, Vandendorpe, Justine & Wilke, Thomas, 2019, Mollusc species from the Pontocaspian region - an expert opinion list, ZooKeys 827, pp. 31-124 : 72

Ecrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803)

*1803 Turbo ventrosus Montagu: 317, pl. 12, fig. 13.

2012 Ecrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803). - Kadolsky: 69-70.

2012 Hydrobia ventrosa (Montagu, 1803). - Welter-Schultes: 40, unnumbered text figures.

Status. Accepted, immigrant species.

Type locality. On the Kent coast (United Kingdom), at Folkstone and Sandwich.

Distribution. Widespread along the coastal zones of northern and western Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, the Russia White Sea; introduced into the western Black Sea.

Taxonomic notes. Unpublished genetic data (TW) suggest that most previous records of E. ventrosa in the Black Sea are likely misidentifications of E. grimmi . A notable exception is a recent, genetically confirmed record from Constanța, Romania ( Osikowski et al. 2016). Probably, the French species Paludestrina arenarum Bourguignat, 1876, P. leneumicra Bourguignat, 1876, P. paludinelliformis Bourguignat, 1876, and Ventrosia cissana Radoman, 1977, which have been listed for the Black Sea Basin ( Anistratenko 1991, Anistratenko and Prisyazhniuk 1992, Anistratenko et al. 2011), are junior synonyms or misidentifications of this species.

Conservation status. Least Concern ( Van Damme 2011a).