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Pupillidae (Pupilla triplicata); Vertiginidae (Vertigo (Vertigo) antivertigo, Truncatellina cylindrica,
T. rothi), Chondrinidae (Granopupa granum, Rupestrella rhodia, Chondrina clienta).
Most species prefer limestone habitats like rocky outcrops and cliffs. Also, while some of the species
are xerophiles (like Pyramidula rupestris, Pupilla triplicate, Truncatellina cylindrica, Granopupa
granum, Rupestrella rhodia), mainly determined species have hygrophilous character of varying
degrees (Orculella ignorata, Sphyradium doliolum, Pagodulina pisidica, P. subdola, Vallonia
costata, V. enniensis, Vertigo (Vertigo) antivertigo).
The Clausiliidae fauna (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) of the Lakes Region
(Göller Bölgesi) in Türkiye
Gümüş, Burçin Aşkım 1 ; Yıldırım, M. Zeki 2
1. Medical High School, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, 15030, Burdur, Türkiye,
Email: burcinaskim@gmail.com
2. Education Faculty, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, 15100, Burdur, Türkiye,
Email: mzekiyildirim@gmail.com
The Clausiliidae is one of the largest family of Gastropoda. This family occurs in the western
Palaearctic region, in South America and in Southeast Africa. In Europe they reach their maximum
diversity in the Balkans and the Caucasus (one-fifth of the European land snail species).
Geographical speciation is common in this family. The members of this family are abundant in the
south and the southwest of Anatolia and in the Aegean (Ege) Region of Türkiye.
Although a number of malacological studies in Türkiye have been done since 1800, there has been an
impressive accumulation of new data on the Clausiliidae of Türkiye by both foreign (Dr. H.
Nordsieck, Dr. H. Schütt, Dr. E. Neubert, Dr. F., Welter-Schultes, Dr. P. Subai, Dr. R. Bank, Dr. H.
P. M. G. Menkhorst, Dr. B. Hausdorf, Dr. L. Németh, Dr. M. Szekeres, Dr. E. Gittenberger) and
Turkish (Dr. M. Z. Yıldırım, Dr. B. A. Gümüş and Dr. A. Örstan) malacologists.
As being the keen malacologists of Turkiye, our aim in this study is to determine the Clausiliidae
fauna of the Lakes Region. The specimens (3 species, 11 subspecies) collected from Isparta, Burdur,
Denizli, Afyon and their vicinities through the years 2002-2006 were determined. The Lakes Region
is under the mixed circumstances of the Mediterranean and the land climate. The speciation in this
family is discussed from the point of the region’s geographical structure and the conditions of the
climate.
The sympatric distribution of “Sprattia beycola medoroides Nordsieck, 2004 and Sprattia blissi blissi
(O. Boettger, 1899)” in Dedegöl Mountain (Yenişarbademli: Isparta) is discussed. The new localities
for S. beycola medoroides (Akyokuş, Gelendost: Isparta) and Sprattia aksoylari Yıldırım, 1997
(Kapıkaya Cave, Sütçüler: Isparta) are reported.
We would like to thank for Nuray Kayıkçı, Ayşe Yıldırım and Ezgi Oya Gümüş for their helps in
collecting the snails.
Land snails from a hidden beauty: Afrodisyas (Karacasu: Aydın) in Türkiye
Gümüş, Burçin Aşkım 1 ; Yıldırım, M. Zeki 2
1. Medical High School, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, 15030, Burdur, Türkiye,
Email: burcinaskim@gmail.com
2. Education Faculty, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, 15100, Burdur, Türkiye,
Email: mzekiyildirim@gmail.com
Afrodisyas is an antique settlement which is in the southeast of Aydın. This city was set up for
Aphrodisias, the goddess of love and beauty and the symbol of the life and fruitfulness. The
archaeological findings prove that the first settlements belong to the Calcholitic Age (B. C. 5500-
3000). The settlements belong to the Early Bronze Age follow then. The temple of the goddess was
built at the first century B. C. The theatre was built during the Helen period of the city. The theatre
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