Serina Gredler (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora: Enidae), the continuous-peristomed mountain snails endemic to the eastern slope of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
Author
Wu, Min
Author
Xu, Qin
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Zootaxa
2013
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3620.1.2
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8.
Serina soluta
, synonymous name
Serina soluta inflata
Yen, 1939
Figs. 1
,
5
H–I, 7;
Tables 1
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Serina soluta inflata
Yen, 1939: 87
, pl. 8, fig. 23.
Serina soluta
inflata—
Chen, Zhou, Luo & Zhang, 2003: 442.
Type
locality.
Between Kangding and Wasigou (Sichuan).
Material examined.
HBUMM-04318: 3 fms (all measured); Luding, Sichuan,
2004–IX–7
, colln. KS. SMF- 42095:
Holotype
. SMF-42096:
Paratypes
, 10 fms (with one's apex lost).
Distribution.
Sichuan (
type
locality, Luding).
Diagnosis.
Shell with the most swollen part occurred at penultimate whorl and body whorl. Suture simple. Last whorl gradually ascending towards aperture; rounded at periphery. Aperture separated from body whorl; not armed; not duplicate.
Shell.
Fusiform; with apex not abruptly pointed; dextral; with the most swollen part occurred at penultimate whorl to body whorl. Growth lines fine and clear. Whorls convex. Postnuclear whorls smooth. Suture simple. Last whorl more or less gradually ascending towards aperture; rounded at periphery; abaperturally indistinctly with a rugate region with crowded and/or thickened growthline-like folds. Aperture wavy; subcircular; vertical; separated from body whorl; not armed. Aperture not duplicate. Peristome and parietal callus almost completely fusing except for a channel at upper insertion of peristome. Reflexed part of peristome straight and not curved backward. Columellar margin reflexed. Columella arched. Umbilicus narrowly open. Shell uniformly brown. Aperture brownish white. Measured specimens: SMF-42095, SMF-42096, HBUMM-04318: 13 shells.
Taxonomic remarks.
The state of the sinuation of aperture in this subspecies is quite similar to that in
S. soluta stenochila
. In addition, the clearly arranged growth lines in this species are distinctly sparser and thicker than the latter taxa. Other opinion of this taxon sees in the Taxonomic remarks under
Serina soluta stenochila
.