Revision of the genus Simplicula stat. nov. (Stylommatophora: Canariellidae) from the eastern Canary Islands, with the description of seven new taxa

The subgenus Simplicula Ponte-Lira & M. R. Alonso, 1997 in the genus Canariella P. Hesse, 1918 is elevated to the rank of a genus and seven new fossil taxa of the group are described from Pliocene and Pleistocene to Holocene deposits from the North of Lanzarote, La Graciosa, and the North, West and Northwest of Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. Their relationship to other taxa of the family Canariellidae on the Canary Islands and in the West-Mediterranean region as well as with fossil species from continental Europe placed in the genus Canariella is discussed.