Radix rufescens  (J. E. Gray, 1822) (Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae), a new species  for Oman and Arabian Peninsula

Andrzej Falniowski; Aleksandra Jaszczyńska; Sebastian Hofman

doi:10.17109/AZH.69.3.303.2023

Andrzej Falniowski Department of Malacology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 9, 30–387 Kraków, Poland
Aleksandra Jaszczyńska Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
Sebastian Hofman Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, ul. Gronostajowa 9, 30–387 Kraków, Poland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.69.3.303.2023

Keywords: shell, reproductive organs, cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI), mtDNA, molecular relationships

Abstract

The fauna of freshwater gastropods of the Arabian Peninsula, a desert land, is neither rich nor extensively studied. Only five species of the family Lymnaeidae have been recorded from this subcontinent so far. In February 2023, a few specimens of Radix rufescens (J. E. Gray, 1822) have been collected from the stream at Wadi Tiwi, NE Oman. The shell, female part of the reproductive organs, prostate, paraeputium and phalloteca are presented. Cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) sequences confirmed the assignment of these specimens to R. rufescens, known from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, not from the Arabian Peninsula. Either R. rufescens is the sixth lymnaeid species inhabiting Arabia, or at least some of the records of R. natalensis (Krauss, 1848), whose shells are hardly discernible from the ones of R. rufescens, should be interpreted as misidentified R. rufescens. Thousands of years of the trade relations between Oman and India suggest accidental transportation of this snail by trade vessels.

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