Korean hypogean malacofauna is reviewed. Shell morphology of troglobitic carychiids from the Nodong Cave is studied in comparison with that of epigenous Carychium species from the Southern Russian Far East. Based on ecology, shell shape and protoconch...
Korean hypogean malacofauna is reviewed. Shell morphology of troglobitic carychiids from the Nodong Cave is studied in comparison with that of epigenous Carychium species from the Southern Russian Far East. Based on ecology, shell shape and protoconch sculpture the Nodong Cave snails are excluded from the genus Carychium and regarded as the Zospeum sp. It is revealed, that in contrast with European Zospeum teleoconch of the Korean Zospeum sp. like protoconch is finely pitted. The record of the Zospeum sp. for the first time represents a range extension of the genus to Asia, with disjunctive distribution, because in Europe its range is restricted to the Pyrenees, the Cantabrian Mountains, and the eastern Dinaric Alps.