Adacna vitrea

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 : 37-38

Adacna vitrea (Eichwald, 1829)

*1829 G. [lycymeris] vitrea Eichwald: 279, pl. 5, fig. 3.

1838 Adacna vitrea m. - Eichwald: 172-173.

1841 Adacna vitrea . - Eichwald: 282-283, pl. 39, fig. 2a, b.

1905 Adacna glabra Ostroumov: 18-19.

1932a Adacna vitrea (Eichwald, 1829). - Bogachev: pl. 1, figs 3, 4, 11.

1932b Adacna vitrea (Eichwald, 1829). - Bogachev: 33, pl. 3, figs 13-16, 28-29.

1952 Adacna (Adacna) vitrea (Eichwald, 1829). - Zhadin: 352-353, fig. 330.

1958 Adacna (Adacna) vitrea (Eichwald), 1838. - Nevesskaja: 47-48, pl. 9, figs 19-22.

1969 Hypanis vitrea vitrea (Eichw.). - Logvinenko and Starobogatov: 337, fig. 354(1), pl. 5, fig. 11.

1969 Hypanis vitrea glabra (Ostr.). - Logvinenko and Starobogatov: 338, fig. 354(2).

1973 Hypanis vitrea vitrea Eichwald, 1829. - Grossu: 145-146, text fig. 30A.

1973 Hypanis vitrea glabra Ostroumoff, 1905. - Grossu: 146, text fig. 30B.

2003 Hypanis vitrea bergi Starobogatov, 1974. - Andreeva and Andreev: 86, fig. 5.1(1, 2).

2013 Adacna (Adacna) vitrea vitrea (Eichwald, 1829). - Kijashko in Bogutskaya et al.: 378, fig. 148.

2013 Adacna (Adacna) vitrea glabra Ostroumoff, 1905. - Kijashko in Bogutskaya et al.: 379, fig. 149.

2016 Adacna (Adacna) vitrea vitrea (Eichwald, 1829). - Vinarski and Kantor: 65.

2016 Adacna (Adacna) vitrea glabra Ostroumov, 1905. - Vinarski and Kantor: 65.

2016 Adacna (Adacna) vitrea bergi (Starobogatov, 1974). - Vinarski and Kantor: 65.

Status. Pontocaspian species, endemic to Caspian Sea Basin, Black Sea Basin, and Aral Sea Basin.

Type locality. "Australem oram caspii maris, Astrabadensem" [southern coast of Caspian Sea, near Astrabad (= Gorgan, Iran)].

Distribution. Black Sea Basin (also in Azov Sea and adjacent lower Don River), Caspian Sea Basin, and Aral Sea (including delta of Amu-Darya River). The Aral populations may have gone extinct in the 1980s ( Andreeva and Andreev 2003).

Taxonomic notes. The species has been subdivided into three geographical subspecies which were not recognised by Graf and Cummings (2018). It concerns a species with thin shells that yield very few diagnostic characters that show overlap. Here, we synonymise the subspecies pending molecular assessments of their status.

Conservation status. Not assessed.