New Tonkinospira Jochum, Slapnik & Páll-Gergely, 2014 species from Laos and Vietnam (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Hypselostomatidae)
Author
Páll-Gergely, Barna
Author
Grego, Jozef
Author
Vermeulen, Jaap J.
Author
Reischütz, Alexander
Author
Hunyadi, András
Author
Jochum, Adrienne
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2019
2019-11-08
67
517
535
journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2019-0041
2345-7600
4576444
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Tonkinospira defixa
(
Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912
)
(
Fig. 6
)
Systenostoma defixa
Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1912: 22–23
, pl. 1, figs 18–19. (
type
locality: Ile de la Table, baie d’Along [«Table Island» in the Halong Bay; the exact location of that island could not be located]).
Systenostoma defixa
— Pilsbry, 1917: 226, pl. 38, figs 15–16.
Tonkinospira defixa
—
Jochum et al., 2014: 32
, fig. 1.
Types examined.
1 shell
syntype
(H:
1.09 mm
, D:
1.57 mm
,
Fig. 6
) (MNHN-IM-2000-32866), Île de la Table, Baie d’Along, coll. Demange.
Other material examined.
Tonkin
, coll.
S.H. Jaeckel
ex Rolle, SMF 202926/3; RBINS Dautzenberg Collection reg. nr. IG 10591 (tray 844), 2 shells (probably
syntypes
)
.
Diagnosis.
A small
Tonkinospira
species with a strongly depressed shell, dense spiral striation, and a peristome that is not adnate to penultimate whorl.
Description.
Shell small for the genus; strongly depressed with conical dorsal side and strongly widened body whorl; body whorl bluntly keeled; 4.25 whorls, regularly increasing except for the body whorl; protoconch consists of 1.25 whorls, finely pitted and with dense, regularly strong spiral striations; teleoconch with irregular, rough radial growth lines, and dense, regular spiral striation, ca.
28 in
number in the middle shell line from apertural view; aperture strongly oblique to shell axis from lateral view; aperture ovate-oblong; peristome expanded but not reflected; aperture not adnate to penultimate whorl; umbilicus wide.
Differential diagnosis.
This species is characterized by its depressed shell, keeled body whorl and wide umbilicus.