A new species: Daphniola louisi n. sp.from the spring at Kessariani, Athens, Greece, is described.This minute valvatoid-shelled snail is the second representative of the genus known so far.The shell, protoconch macro-and microsculpture, and radula are described and illustrated with SEM photographs.The other characters dealt with are: external morphology and soft part pigmentation, ctenidium and osphradium, penis, female reproductive organs.Differences between the newly described species and Daphniola exigua (A.Schmidt, 1856) are listed; phenetic relationships between the valvatoid-shelled Balkan hydrobiids are presented.
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