The Diplommatinidae of Fiji - a hotspot of Pacific land snail biodiversity (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoroidea)
Author
Neubert, Eike
Author
Bouchet, Philippe
text
ZooKeys
2015
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.487.8463
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.487.8463
1313-2970-487-1
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Taxon classification Animalia Mesogastropoda Diplommatinidae
Diancta taviensis (Liardet, 1876)
comb. n.
Fig. 123
Diplommatina taviensis
Liardet 1876, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1876: 101, pl. V fig. 9 (on the figure caption, the specific epithet is erroneously spelled
taviuviensis
). Type locality: Taviuni [= Taveuni Island, Fiji].
Type material.
Not in NHMUK.
Material.
No specimen available.
Description
(original). "Shell with the penultimate whorl contracted in front, leaving the previous one and lip of the aperture joining regularly costated; lip double; aperture circular and entire. Animal with two tentacles, short and cylindrical, with an active arched motion, as in
Helicina
. Eyes situated at the base of tentacles inside [Hab. Taviuni, Fiji]."
Remarks.
No specimen is available, but no collecting was done in Taveuni. This taxon was overlooked by
Kobelt (1902)
. The original illustration is of a shell with an aperture shifted to the left of the shell axis, which indicates a generic placement in
Diancta
rather than
Moussonia
or
Palaina
.