Theodoxus pseudodacicus, Neubauer & Harzhauser & Georgopoulou & Mandic & Kroh, 2014

Neubauer, Thomas A., Harzhauser, Mathias, Georgopoulou, Elisavet, Mandic, Oleg & Kroh, Andreas, 2014, Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda, Zootaxa 3785 (3), pp. 453-468 : 454

Theodoxus pseudodacicus nom. nov.

Theodoxus (Theodoxus) dacicus Pană 2003: 301 , pl. 1, figs 7–8 [non Theodoxus dacicus Jekelius, 1944 ].

Etymology. To denote that this species is not Theodoxus dacicus .

Type locality. Vintilă Vodă in Slănic valley, Buzău, Romania.

Age. Lower Romanian (= Sienisian, upper Zanclean).

Holotype. Laboratory of Paleontology , Bucharest, coll. no. 623, L. P. B. III g.

Discussion. This species was introduced by Pană (2003) for a Pliocene taxon from the Dacian Basin. It is a primary homonym of Theodoxus dacicus Jekelius, 1944 (p. 114), a different species described from the Late Miocene of Soceni in the Pannonian Basin. The Miocene species was classified by Papp (1953, p. 99) as a subspecies of T. leobersdorfensis ( Handmann, 1887) .

When introducing this species Pană (2003) referred to it as " Theodoxus (Theodoxus) dacicus n. sp. Pană 1989 ". This leads to some confusion, since she properly described and illustrated the taxon and indicated a holotype in 2003, but gave no reference to a work from 1989. The only publication from Pană (1989) known to us deals with different taxa. Maybe she introduced the name (as nomen nudum) in an unpublished thesis.