New taxa and distributional notes on Abbottella and related taxa (Gastropoda: Littorinoidea: Annulariidae) Author Watters, G. Thomas text Zootaxa 2013 3646 1 1 22 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3646.1.1 9b6ec282-ff71-4189-81cb-f63930d210de 1175-5326 283728 55F70B5D-79AD-4C77-9164-EFE7126316E8 Abbottella ( Abbottella ) sosuaensis Bartsch, 1946 Figures 4 O–S, 9 E Type material. USNM 336768, holotype . Type locality. Sosúa, 16 miles east of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic . Other material examined. UF 218136, 3 km W of Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic ; UF 216124, 7 km E and 2 km S of Sosúa, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic ; UF 216137, 4 km SW of Sosúa, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic ; UF 216182, 4 km E of Sosúa, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic ; UF 216179, 7 km E of Sosúa, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic ; UF 215993, Sosúa, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic ; UF 216176, 1 km NE of Rio San Juan, María Trinidad Sanchéz Province, Dominican Republic ; UF 216110, 0.5 km NNE of Cano Claro, María Trinidad Sanchéz Province, Dominican Republic , at 30 m ; UF 216120, El Valle, Samaná Province, Dominican Republic ; GTW 13728b, Rio San Juan, María Trinidad Sanchéz Province, Dominican Republic ; GTW 9431a, outskirts of Sosúa, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic . Distribution and habitat. Known from Puerto Plata through Cano Claro on the north slope of the Cordillera Septentrional and at El Valle on the Samaná Peninsula. Part of its range lies within the Parque Nacional El Choco. Specimens have been found under rocks in pasture along limestone rolling hills and under limestone rubble at the base of cliffs. Locally common. Comparison with other species. Although closely resembling A. samanensis ( Figure 4 F–I) and A. sanchezi ( Figure 4 J–N), A. sosuaensis lacks the keel-like spiral cords in the umbilicus.