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Testicular fusion in a patient with transverse testicular ectopia and persistent mullerian duct syndrome.
No full textWe report a case of fused testes in a patient with transverse testicular ectopia and persistent Mullerian duct syndrome. A laparoscopy performed to confirm the diagnosis showed a single vas deferens on the left side. Treatment included excision of the Mullerian remnant through a left inguinal incision and orchidopexy of the fused testes via the left inguinal canal after sectioning of the right internal spermatic vessels. Follow-up ultrasound has so far confirmed viability of both testes. UROLOGY 76: 62-64, 2010. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc
Litthabitella chilodia (Westerlund, 1886) in Italy (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae)
No full textBythinella opaca pollinensis Bacci (1952) is herein regarded as a junior synonym of Litthabitella chilodia (Westerlund, 1886). Litthabitella Boeters, 1970, is a genus of hydrobiid prosobranchs characterized by: penis apex bifid, divided into apical lobe and tip of penis proper; one-four irregularly shaped glandular swellings on ventral side of apical lobe and penis close to base of lobe; well developed bursa copulatrix; two seminal receptacles, proximal (RS2) smaller than distal (RS1). At present it includes only the type species L. chilodia present in the western Balkans, Ionian islands and southern Italy. Paludinella elliptica Paladilhe, 1874, from the Pyrenees, once attributed to Litthabitella, still has uncertain taxonomic relationships. The current subdivision of L. chilodia into L. chilodia chilodia and L. chilodia ionica (Schutt, 1980) is rejected. Examination of the type material of the latter from the island of Corfu, showed that it includes two different taxa, one of which (the holotype) is a species of Belgrandia and the other L. chilodia. Due to the absence of anatomical data, the taxonomic status of Belgrandia ionica (Schutt, 1980) is still uncertain. Italian populations of L. chilodia are characterized by wide variation in shell shape and size and one population, living in a small brook in the cave Grotta del Tasso in Apulia, has two distinct coexisting shell morphs, almost without intermediates
Two Platyla species from Sardinia (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Aciculidae)
No full textRecent field work led to the discovery of two Platyla species in Sardinia where no aciculids had hitherto been reported. One of these species, P. sardoa n. sp., is similar to the fossil P. klemmi from the Lower Pliocene of Celleneuve near Montpellier (France) and the Upper Pliocene of the Rhine Valley (Germany) and to the recent P. lusitanica from southern Portugal. It has a reduced range in the central-eastern part of the island, but it is locally frequent. The other species, Platyla sp., recalls P. gracilis, P. cryptomena and P. microspira. It is easily distinguished from the first two species, but its relationship with the last is difficult to define. Although it has a wider range than the other species, it is locally rather scarce
New hydrobiids from subterranean waters of eastern Sardinia (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Hydrobiidae).
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Litthabitella chilodia (Westerlund, 1886) in Italy (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Hydrobiidae)
No full textBythinella opaca pollinensis Bacci (1952) is herein regarded as a junior synonym of Litthabitella chilodia (Westerlund, 1886). Litthabitella Boeters, 1970, is a genus of hydrobiid prosobranchs characterized by: penis apex bifid, divided into apical lobe and tip of penis proper; one–four irregularly shaped glandular swellings on ventral side of apical lobe and penis close to base of lobe; well developed bursa copulatrix; two seminal receptacles, proximal (RS2) smaller than distal (RS1). At present it includes only the type species L. chilodia present in the western Balkans, Ionian islands and southern Italy. Paludinella elliptica Paladilhe, 1874, from the Pyrenees, once attributed to Litthabitella, still has uncertain taxonomic relationships. The current subdivision of L. chilodia into L. chilodia chilodia and L. chilodia ionica (Schütt, 1980) is rejected. Examination of the type material of the latter from the island of Corfu, showed that it includes two different taxa, one of which (the holotype) is a species of Belgrandia and the other L. chilodia. Due to the absence of anatomical data, the taxonomic status of Belgrandia ionica (Schütt, 1980) is still uncertain. Italian populations of L. chilodia are characterized by wide variation in shell shape and size and one population, living in a small brook in the cave Grotta del Tasso in Apulia, has two distinct coexisting shell morphs, almost without intermediates
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