Notes on the hypselostomatid snails (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from limestone hills in Western Cambodia with a new record and a new species
Author
Sutcharit, Chirasak
Author
Ngor, Peng Bun
Author
Páll-Gergely, Barna
Author
Jeratthitikul, Ekgachai
Author
Siriwut, Warut
Author
Srisonchai, Ruttapon
Author
Ng, Ting Hui
Author
Jirapatrasilp, Parin
Author
Panha, Somsak
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Journal of Natural History
2023
2023-09-27
57
25 - 28
1287
1303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2223386
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10.1080/00222933.2023.2223386
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Hypselostoma srakeoensis
(
Panha and Burch, 2004
)
(
Figures 1
,
2
;
Table 1
)
Anauchen srakeoensis
Panha and Burch
in
Panha
et al
. 2004: 62
, 63, fig. 4.
Type
locality: Plubpluengtong limestone hills, Srakeo Province.
Panha and Burch 2005: 52
, 53, fig. 48.
Material examined
Holotype
CUMZ
Ver44037 from Plubpluengtong limestone hills, Srakeo Province (
13.448781°N
,
102.217914°E
);
paratypes
CUMZ
Ver
44038 (9 shells;
Figure 2
(a)).
THAILAND
:
CUMZ 14201
(77 shells) from
Wat Tham Khao Chan
,
Phra Phloeng
,
Khao Chakan District
, Sa Kaeo Province (
13.578111°N
,
102.091972°E
).
CAMBODIA
:
CUMZ 14202
(35 shells;
Figure 2
(b, c))
from
Prasat Phnom Korngva
(Thammaban Khiri Temple),
Serei Saophoan
(Sisophon),
Banteay Meanchey Province
(
13.633056°N
,
102.943472°E
).
CUMZ 14203
(2 shells)
from
Kirirom Phnombak Temple
,
Serei Saophoan
(Sisophon),
Banteay Meanchey Province
(
13.592056°N
,
102.933333°E
).
Figure 2.
Hypselostoma srakeoensis
. (a) Paratype CUMZ Ver44038 with apertural dentition. (b, c) specimen CUMZ 14202 from Serei Saophoan, Banteay Meanchey, (b) shell and apertural dentition, and (c) protoconch sculpture. Abbreviations: c = columellar lamella, lpl = lower palatal lamella, p = parietal lamella, upl = upper palatal lamella.
Diagnosis
Shell depressed heliciform, and long and descending tuba. Protoconch sculptured with only shallow pits. Spiral striations absent. Apertural dentition with four major lamellae (parietal, upper and lower palatals, and columellar), and numerous plicae. All lamellae and plicae spinose.
Description
Shell depressed heliciform, last whorl enlarged with descending tuba, and spire elevated conical. Shell colour brownish,
3.2–3.4 mm
in length,
3.1–3.2 mm
in width, and with 4–4½ whorls. Protoconch about two whorls and sculptured with roundish and shallow pits. Teleoconch sculptured with malleations or wrinkles arranged on strong or weak growth lines. Spire raised, whorl rounded and evenly sloped, and impressed suture. Last whorl shouldered, flattened periphery, and long tuba projecting downward. Two wide and shallow furrows present: one on upper periphery and one surrounding umbilicus and extended to expanded lip. Aperture irregularly circular; peristome free with broadly expanded lip margins. Apertural dentition with four prominent lamellae including parietal, upper and lower palatals, and columellar. Parietal (p) lamella very tall, with lower portion anteriorly, and situated anteriorly located to peristome. Palatal wall with strong upper (upl) and lower palatal (lpl) lamellae, two small suprapalatal plicae, one small and one tiny interpalatal plicae, and five tiny infrapalatal plicae. Columella area with strong columellar (c) lamella, two tiny subcolumellar plicae, and two small supracolumellar plicae. All apertural dentition (lamellae and plicae) with small spines along approximately central line of lamellae. Umbilicus very wide and showing nearly all preceding whorls.
Distribution
Currently, this species is known from Srakeo Province,
Thailand
(
Panha and Burch 2005
), and the limestone outcrops in Serei Saophoan District,
Banteay Meanchey Province
,
Cambodia
(
Figure 1
).
Differential diagnosis
This species differs from all known congeners from southern
Cambodia
in having a depressed heliciform shell, enlarged and truncated last whorl, and long and descending tuba. In contrast,
H. benetuitum
,
H. cambodjense
and
H. discobasis
have turret heliciform shells, a shouldered last whorl, and a short and straight tuba. From a conchological point of view,
A. chaunosalpinx
Vermeulen
et al
., 2019
possesses a long tuba with an irregular parietal lamella but was classified in
Anauchen
(
Vermeulen
et al
. 2019b
)
.
Hypselostoma srakeoensis
differs by having a more descending tuba, without spiral striation and a shouldered last whorl, and is without hook-shaped lamellae. In comparison,
A. chaunosalpinx
tends to have a turret spire, slightly descending tuba, spiral striations, angular last whorl, and a hook shape of the upper and lower palatal lamellae.
Remarks
This species was originally placed under the genus
Anauchen
Pilsbry, 1917
(
type
species =
Boysidia gereti
Bavay and Dautzenberg, 1904
, junior synonym of
Hypselostoma rochebruni
Mabille, 1887
, see
Páll-Gergely (2023)
;
Figure 5
(a)), which is characterised by having adnate tuba and without angular lamella (
Pilsbry 1917
;
Schileyko 1998
;
Panha and Burch 2005
). However, this species tends to have a long and descending tuba, and parietal lamella with lower portion anteriorly that may indicate that it is a composite of angular and parietal lamellae, while the last whorl bears upper periphery and umbilical furrows. Therefore, in the meantime, we formally reclassify this species into the genus
Hypselostoma
, which is a more appropriate genus than
Anauchen
.