Revision of the " Chloritis delibrata (Benson, 1836) " group (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Camaenidae)
Author
Pall-Gergely, Barna
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6167-7221
Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Herman Otto Street 15, Budapest, H- 1022, Hungary
pallgergely2@gmail.com
Author
Ablett, Jonathan D.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7277-1934
Mollusca Section, Invertebrates Division, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museums, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
Author
Szabo, Marton
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Paleontology and Geology, Ludovika ter 2, Budapest 1083, Hungary
Author
Neubert, Eike
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0277-2894
Natural History Museum of the Burgergemeinde Bern, Bernastr. 15, CH- 3005 Berne, Switzerland & Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Helix (Trachia) delibrata var. khasiensis Nevill, 1877, taxon inquirendum
Helix delibrata
(?) var. Hanley & Theobald, 1870: pl. 14, fig. 9.
Helix (Trachia) delibrata Var. khasiensis
Nevill, 1877: 21.
Chloritis (Trichochloritis) delibrata var. khasiensis
Gude, 1914: 173.
Chloritis delibrata var. khasiensis
Richardson, 1985: 93.
Chloritis delibrata khasiensis
Ramakrishna et al., 2010
: 326.
Type locality.
"Khasi Hills".
Types.
Not found in the NHM or in the ZSI (Sheikh Sajan, pers. comm. April 2020).
Remarks.
Nevill (1877)
named the form illustrated in Hanley and
Theobald's
(1870) Conchologia Indica (pl. 14, fig. 9) as var.
Chloritis khasiensis
, and mentioned that it has more raised and rounded whorls and a less open umbilicus than the typical
H. delibrata
.
Nevill's
(1877)
description was as follows: "The raised and rounded whorls, less open umbilicus, and contracted aperture will distinguish the form; it has sometimes a single brown band, but is often without it; it is tolerably abundant in the Naga and Khasi Hills. (...) Var.
Chloritis khasiensis
, from Khasi Hills, axis 8.5, diam. 19.5 (apert. 9, diam 10.5) mm".
Bouchetcamaena fusca
sp. nov. agrees with some parts of
Nevill's
description (more raised spire and narrower umbilicus than in other similar species), and the Naga and Khasi Hills also match, but the specimens we described above as
B. fusca
sp. nov. possessed no band and are all smaller than the size mentioned by Nevill. Furthermore, the shell illustrated by Hanley and Theobald (1870) possesses a subsutural furrow (a furrow running between the middle of the body whorl and the suture), which is absent in all
B. fusca
sp. nov. shells we examined. Thus, we decided to describe these specimens as a new species and consider the name
Helix (Trachia) delibrata var. khasiensis
as a taxon inquirendum.