New insights in Trichochloritis Pilsbry, 1891 and its relatives (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Camaenidae)
Author
Pall-Gergely, Barna
Author
Neubert, Eike
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.865.36296
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.865.36296
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Genus
Dentichloritis
gen. nov.
Trichochloritis
: Schileyko, 2007: 2113-2114, fig. 2032
a-c
(partim).
Type species.
Helix brevidens
Sowerby I, 1841: 25 (Puerto Galero, Philippines).
Diagnosis.
Shell depressed globular, apex not sunken, hairs or hair scars cover the entire shell, aperture with a basal denticle. Penis very thick-walled, with narrow lumen, internally with very large conic tubercles in main chamber; flagellum and epiphallus absent; vas deferens passes gradually enlarging into penis; retractor muscle inserts at curvature of vas deferens close to its joint with penis; penial sheath thin, surrounds upper two third part of penis; vagina shorter than penis, thick.
Etymology.
The name
Dentichloritis
refers to the presence of a denticle on the basal peristomal lip and the conchological similarity to
Chloritis
.
Remarks.
There are seven
Trichochloritis
species known from the Philippines (
Richardson 1985
), and four of them have been photographed by
Zilch (1966)
. They differ from
D. brevidens
in the open umbilicus and the lack of denticle on the basal lip. Therefore, we retain them in
Trichochloritis
until ethanol-preserved specimens become available.