Terrestrial Gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the City of Plovdiv

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Terrestrial Gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the City of Plovdiv

Journal Title: Bulletin of the Natural History Museum – Plovdiv - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue

Abstract

A complete review of the terrestrial malacofauna in Plovdiv City was conducted based on the literary and new data. The outcome of the research is the identification of 49 species and subspecies of terrestrial snails, belonging to 19 families, from which the presence of 37 species in the city is reported for the first time. It has been determined that 7 of the species reported prior to the research are no longer located in the city of Plovdiv. A zoogeographic analysis of the malacofauna was performed. Interesting cases of registered coastal, endemic of the Rhodopes Mountains and of Plovdiv species have been reported.

Authors and Affiliations

Atanas Irikov

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Selected Aquatic Invertebrate Animal Groups in the City of Plovdiv, Reported in “Fauna of Thrakia”

Published data on a total of 76 species was presented, according to their localities and the first author who reported them for the area of the city: Protozoa (4), Porifera (1 species), Hydrozoa (2 species), Turbellaria...

Fossil records of Rhinoceroses (Rhinocerotoidea Gray, 1821), Chalicotheres (Chalicotherioidea Gill, 1872) and Brontotheres (Brontotherioidea (Marsh,1873) (Peryssodactyla Owen, 1848 -Mammalia Linnaeus, 1758) in Bulgaria

The fossil record of the Rhinoceroses, Chalicotheres and Brontotheres in Bulgaria covers 34 taxa from a total of 53 localities dated from the Oligocene to the Late Pleistocene: Rhinocerotoidea (27 taxa)...

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