Correspondence ISSN 2336-9744 The journal is available on line at www.ecol-mne.com Contribution to the knowledge of the door-snail (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae) fauna of Georgia ZOLTÁN FEHÉR1,2, MIKLÓS SZEKERES3 and BARNA PÁLL-GERGELY4 13rd Zoological Department, Natural History Museum, Vienna, Burgring 7, A-1010, Vienna, Austria. E-mail:
[email protected] 2Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1083, Baross utca 13, Budapest, Hungary 3Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Temesvári krt. 62, H- 6726, Szeged, Hungary. E-mail:
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[email protected] Received 11 September 2014 │ Accepted 16 September 2014 │ Published online 17 September 2014. The Caucasus region is among the most important Eurasian biodiversity hotspots (Zazanashvili et al. 2004, Walther et al. 2014). Its mollusc fauna is far from being well-explored and, as indicated by a number of recent studies (Hausdorf 2000, 2001, 2003, Kijashko 2006, Likharev & Schileyko 2007, Mumladze et al. 2008, Suvorov 2002, 2003, 2006), one could reasonably expect further taxonomical discoveries in this region. The diversity and distribution of the mollusc fauna are especially little known, as only few precise locality records have been published for most of the species (Walther et al. 2014, see also http://www.caucasus-snails.uni-hamburg.de/CaucasianLandSnails-Dateien/Checklist.html). This paper has three objectives, namely (i) clarifying the question of possible genital polymorphism in Pontophaedusa funiculum (Mousson) (Fig. 1), (ii) presenting georeferenced distribution records (Appendix 1) and shell photographs (Figs 2–15) of clausiliid species collected during a field trip in Georgia in June, 2012 in order to contribute the better knowledge of the region’s biodiversity, and (iii) providing a comprehensive list of Caucasian door-snail literature (Appendix 2).