Zospeum is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae, the salt marsh snails.
Species Species within the genus Zospeum include: Zospeum allegrettii Conci, 1956 Zospeum alpestre (Freyer, 1855) Zospeum alpestre alpestre (Freyer, 1855) Zospeum alpestre kupitzense A. Stummer, 1984 Zospeum alpestre bolei Slapnik, 1991 Zospeum amoenum (Frauenfeld, 1856) Zospeum bellesi Gittenberger, 1973 Zospeum biscaiense Gómez & Prieto, 1983 Zospeum bucculentum Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019 Zospeum cariadeghense Allegretti, 1944 Zospeum clathratum Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019 Zospeum costatum (Freyer, 1855) Zospeum exiguum Kuščer, 1932 Zospeum frauenfeldii (Freyer, 1855) Zospeum frauenfeldii frauenfeldii (Freyer, 1855) Zospeum frauenfeldii osolei Slapnik, 1994 Zospeum freyeri (F.J. Schmidt, 1849) Zospeum galvagnii Conci, 1956 Zospeum globosum Kušcer, 1928 Zospeum gittenbergeri Jochum, Prieto & De Winter, 2019 Zospeum isselianum Pollonera, 1887 Zospeum kupitzense A. Stummer, 1984 Zospeum kusceri Wagner, 1912 Zospeum lamellatum Bole, 1974 Zospeum lautum (Frauenfeld, 1854) Zospeum likanum Bole, 1960 Zospeum manitaense Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019 Zospeum obesum (Frauenfeld, 1854) Zospeum percostulatum Alonso, Prieto, Quiñonero-Salgado & Rolán, 2018 Zospeum pagodulum Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019 Zospeum praetermissum Jochum, Prieto & De Winter, 2019 Zospeum pretneri Bole, 1960 Zospeum robustum Inäbnit, Jochum & Neubert 2019 Zospeum schaufussi Frauenfeld, 1862 Zospeum spelaeum (Rossmässler, 1839)) Zospeum spelaeum spelaeum (Rossmässler, 1839) Zospeum spelaeum schmidti (Frauenfeld, 1854) Zospeum subobesum Bole, 1974 Zospeum tholussum Weigand, 2013 Zospeum trebicianum Stossich, 1899 Zospeum turriculatum Allegretti, 1944 Zospeum troglobalcanicum Absolon, 1916 Zospeum vasconicum Prieto, De Winter, Weigand, Gómez & Jochum, 2015 Zospeum zaldivarae Prieto, De Winter, Weigand, Gómez & Jochum, 2015
Literature Weigand, AM 2013: New Zospeum species (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) from 980 m depth in the Lukina Jama–Trojama cave system (Velebit Mts., Croatia). Subterranean Biology 11, 45-53. Weigand, AM, Jochum, A, Slapnik, R, Schnitzler, J, Zarza, E und Klussmann-Kolb, A 2013: Evolution of microgastropods (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae): integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and evolutionary hypotheses. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:18 (PDF; 2,7 MB) Jochum, A., Weigand, A. M., Slapnik, R., Valentinčič, J., & Prieto, C. E. (2012). The microscopic ellobioid, Zospeum Bourguignat, 1856 (Pulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) makes a big debut in Basque Country and the province of Burgos (Spain). MalaCo, 8, 400-403.(PDF)
References Weigand, A. (2013). New Zospeum species (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae) from 980 m depth in the Lukina Jama–Trojama cave system (Velebit Mts., Croatia). Subterranean Biology, 11, 45. Jochum, A., De Winter, A. J., Weigand, A. M., Gómez, B., & Prieto, C. (2015). Two new species of Zospeum Bourguignat, 1856 from the Basque-Cantabrian Mountains, Northern Spain (Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). ZooKeys, (483), 81. doi:10.3897/zookeys.483.9167 Alonso A, Prieto CE, Quiñonero-Salgado S, Rolán E (2018) A morphological gap for Iberian Zospeum filled: Zospeum percostulatum sp. n. (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Carychiidae) a new species from Asturias (Spain). Subterranean Biology 25: 35-48. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.25.23364 Inäbnit, T., Jochum, A., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., Ruthensteiner, B., Slapnik, R., ... & Neubert, E. (2019). An integrative taxonomic study reveals carychiid microsnails of the troglobitic genus Zospeum in the Eastern and Dinaric Alps (Gastropoda, Ellobioidea, Carychiinae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 19(2), 135-177.
Jochum, A., Prieto, C. E., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., Ruthensteiner, B., Vrabec, M., ... & de Winter, A. J. (2019). Re-evaluation of Zospeum schaufussi von Frauenfeld, 1862 and Z. suarezi Gittenberger, 1980, including the description of two new Iberian species using Computer Tomography (CT)(Eupulmonata, Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). ZooKeys 835: 65–86. Jochum, A., Slapnik, R., Klussmann-Kolb, A., Páll-Gergely, B., Kampschulte, M., Martels, G., ... & Weigand, A. M. (2015). Groping through the black box of variability: An integrative taxonomic and nomenclatural re-evaluation of Zospeum isselianum Pollonera, 1887 and allied species using new imaging technology (Nano-CT, SEM), conchological, histological and molecular data (Ellobioidea, Carychiidae). Subterranean Biology, 16, 123-165.
External links Animalbase - Zospeum Molluscs of central Europe