Nineteen new species of Alycaeidae from Myanmar and Thailand (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoroidea)
Author
Páll-Gergely, Barna
Author
Hunyadi, András
0000-0003-3488-2817
hunand@freemail.hu
Author
Grego, Jozef
0000-0002-4977-0415
jozef.grego@gmail.com
Author
Reischütz, Alexander
0000-0002-8844-7004
alexander.reischuetz@gmx.at
Author
Auffenberg, Kurt
0000-0001-9660-6776
kurtauffenberg@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-18
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Chamalycaeus irmatallus
Páll-Gergely
n. sp.
Figs 9
,
10A
Material examined.
Holotype
:
Thailand
,
Surat Thani Province
, limestone mtn.,
6 km
S of
Na San
,
8°39.583’N
,
99°23.883’E
,
100 m
a.s.l.
,
3 Jun. 1987
,
F.G. Thompson
leg.,
UF
279508 (D:
2.02 mm
, H:
1.32 mm
)
.
Paratypes
:
11 shells, same data as holotype,
UF
551216
.
Other material:
6 shells,
Myanmar
, Thayet-myo,
Pegu
, coll.
Blanford
,
NHMUK
1906.4.4.71; 1 shell,
Thailand
,
Phang Nga Province
,
Phang Nga
,
Tham Nam Phud
,
8°27.829’N
,
98°32.617’E
,
40 m
a.s.l.
(locality code: 2015/33),
20 Feb. 2015
,
A. Hunyadi
leg., around the cave,
HA
.
Etymology.
The specific epithet is an anagram for
armillatus
, a species with which this new species has been confused (see Differential diagnosis).
Diagnosis.
A tiny
Chamalycaeus
species
with glossy shell, irregularly, finely ribbed R1, very short R2 with blunt, low ribs, and somewhat longer R3 (the two latter regions are shorter than a quarter whorl combined).
Description.
Shell off-white, rather glossy, although available shells are somewhat eroded; shell outline slightly oval in dorsal view; spire slightly elevated, conical-domed; body whorl somewhat “parabolic” in apertural view; protoconch rather low, glossy, spiral striae lacking, 1.25 whorls; R1 of 1.5–1.75 whorls, with very indistinct, irregular, low and rounded, relatively wide ribs, and some weak spiral striation; boundary between R1 and R2 distinct due to change in intensity and strength of ribbing; R2 short, only ca. 16–20 ribs; R2+R3 less than quarter whorl (ca. 70–80˚); R3 up to twice as long as R2; boundary between R2 and R3 clear due to change in rib morphology, although constriction very shallow; R3 with very fine, rounded ribs, and low, convex, elongated central swelling; aperture round, slightly oblique to shell axis; boundary between inner and outer peristomes distinct, inner peristome strongly protruding, thickened, slightly expanded; outer peristome slightly weaker or as strong, also expanded, only slightly reflected toward umbilicus; umbilicus relatively narrow, ca. one third of shell width.
Measurements.
D:
1.75–2.02 mm
, H:
1.15–1.32 mm
.
Operculum.
Unknown.
Differential diagnosis.
Chamalycaeus armillatus
(
Benson, 1856
)
(material examined: Thayet-Mio, UMZC 102995,
holotype
,
Fig. 10B
) has a more rounded body whorl, longer R2 and R3, and a thicker peristome with greater distance between the edges of the inner and outer peristomes.
Distribution.
The
type
locality is in Thailand’s Surat Thani Province. A single shell was collected in the neighbouring Phang Nga Province (locality code: 2015/33, coll. HA). Shells collected more than
1,000 km
north in Thayet,
Myanmar
are so similar to the Thai populations that they could not be separated (see below) (
Fig. 3
).
Remarks.
Chamalycaeus armillatus
was described from an eroded specimen. Some spiral striations are visible on the
holotype
, but they might be the part of the lower shell layer. Thus, this species was provisionally assigned to
Chamalycaeus
in
Páll-Gergely
et al.
(2020)
.
Specimens from Thayet (NHMUK 1906.4.4.71, labelled as
armillatus
) have slightly less densely arranged R2 ribs than typical
C. irmatallus
n. sp.
A single, eroded shell from Tham Nam Phud (
Thailand
) is somewhat larger than the
holotype
of
C. irmatallus
n. sp.
, and has a longer R2. Since all other shell characters are identical, we provisionally identify the Tham Nam Phud and Thayet specimens as
C.
cf.
irmatallus
n. sp.