title: A new member of troglobitic Carychiidae, Koreozospeum nodongense gen. et sp. n. (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea) is described from Korea.
abstract: A new genus of troglobitic Carychiidae Jeffreys, 1830 is designated from Nodong Cave, North Chungcheong Province, Danyang, South Korea. This remarkable find represents a great range extension and thus, a highly distant distribution of troglobitic Carychiidae in Asia. The Zospeum-like, carychiid snails were recently included, without a formal description, in records documenting Korean malacofauna. The present paper describes Koreozospeum Jochum & Prozorova, gen. n. and illustrates the type species, Koreozospeum nodongense Lee, Prozorova & Jochum, sp. n. using novel Nano-CT images, including a video, internal shell morphology, SEM and SEM-EDX elemental compositional analysis of the shell.
authors: Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern, CH-3005 Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
authors: Adrienne
authors: A
authors: Jochum
authors: Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.
authors: Larisa
authors: L
authors: Prozorova
authors: Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.
authors: Mariana
authors: M
authors: Sharyi-Ool
authors: Department of Biology, Shinshu University, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan.
authors: Barna
authors: B
authors: Páll-Gergely
keywords: Cave-dwelling species; conservation; ecology; energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry; microgastropoda; subterranean snail