Systematic revision of the Plectopylinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae)
Author
Páll-Gergely, Barna
31E196E9-5A51-4295-9A36-D5DA689502B7
Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Herman Ottó Street 15, Budapest, H- 1022, Hungary.
pall-gergely.barna@agrar.mta.hu
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2018
2018-08-16
455
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journal article
22297
10.5852/ejt.2018.455
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Naggsia oligogyra
sp. nov.
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13CE6536-3C26-421E-ACA1-270750697E3A
Figs 31F
,
32
G–H
Diagnosis
A large, flat, dextral species with few (5) whorls; parietal wall with a single lamella, and a main plica free from the deeply situated apertural fold.
Differential diagnosis
The shell of the new species resembles
N. laomontana
, which has about a whorl more and only a single lamella on the parietal wall.
Etymology
The species is named after its few whorls, from the Greek ‘
oligos
’, meaning few and ‘
gyros
’, meaning whorl.
Material examined
Holotype
THAILAND
: 1 shell (D = 21.0 mm),
Chiang Mae Province
,
Doi Pha San Sao Mountain
,
1 km
W of Ban Prang Ma-o
,
19°25′58.26″ N
,
99°4′14.02″ E
,
500 m
a.s.l.
,
19 Jun. 1987
,
F.G. Thompson
leg. (
UF
346781).
Paratypes
THAILAND
: 2 broken shells, same data as for
holotype
(
UF
448574); 1 broken shell, same data as for
holotype
(
HNHM
97457).
Description
SHELL. Dextral, flat, with five rapidly increasing whorls, separated by a rather shallow suture; only strongly weathered shells were available for study, and therefore the sculpture could not be observed in detail; protoconch with fine ribs; teleoconch with inconspicuous, irregular riblets and paler reddish transverse stripes; peristome relatively thin, only slightly reflected and thickened; parietal callus low and blunt; apertural fold weak, situated far from parietal callus.
One shell was opened. Parietal wall with a single, straight lamella having slight horizontal extensions above and below in both anterior and posterior directions; main plica free from lamella, starts near upper end of lamella, and does not reach apertural fold. Palatal wall with six plicae; first situated close to upper suture, short; second to fifth oblique, second being the longest; sixth curved, concave.
MEASUREMENTS (in mm). D = 21.0, H = 6.3 (
holotype
).
Distribution
The new species is known from the
type
locality only, where it occurs together with
C. leiophis
(
Fig. 17
).