Zoobenthos is an important component of the aquatic ecosystems of the Lake Skadar basin
and represents a reliable bioindicator of environmental degradation. In Lake Skadar, the …

 Abstract The Southeast Asian genus Angustopila, currently comprising 13 nominal species,
encompasses the world's tiniest land snails. This work shows that there are far more species …

We present a checklist of 86 valid freshwater mollusc species of Serbia (65 gastropods and
21 bivalves) belonging to 19 families (15 gastropods and four bivalves). The list is based on …

The extremely rich stygobiont malacofauna of the Balkans is still poorly studied, and the
systematics is based mostly on shells whose characters are often misleading. An interesting …

Based on the published data, approximately 90 stygobiotic species are known from aquatic
subterranean environment of the Lake Skadar Basin. Crustacea are the most diverse …

During systematic surveys of groundwater snails in Slovakia, Hungary and Bosnia and
Hercegovina two new species of the genus Hauffenia, H. lozekiana sp. nov. from a single …

Abstract The genus Plagigeyeria Tomlin, 1930 is one of the most typical elements
representing the stygobiont fauna in the southern Dinaric Alps. In the current study I present …

Since 2020, the south-western Caucasus has been recognized as a hotspot of stygobiotic
Mollusca diversity after revealing a large number of new, range-restricted species within the …

Abstract The Balkan Peninsula is a vital part of Europe's biodiversity in respect to freshwater
gastropods and many of recorded taxa are stenobionts of narrow distribution. This chapter …

A taxonomic revision of the snails from the northern Black Sea coastal region previously
assigned to the genus Belgrandiella AJ Wagner 1928 (Hydrobiidae) is presented. As shown …