Four new cyclophoroid species from Thailand and Laos (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Alycaeidae, Diplommatinidae, Pupinidae)
Author
Páll-Gergely, Barna
Author
Hunyadi, András
text
Zoosystema
2018
2018-02-13
40
3
59
66
journal article
10.5252/zoosystema2018v40
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Pseudopomatias caligosus
n. sp.
(
Fig. 3
)
TYPE MATERIAL
. —
Thailand
.
Mae Hong Son Province
,
9.1 km
from
Ban Soppong
towards
Mae Hong Son
, left side of road #
1095, 785 m
a.s.l.
,
19°33.123’N
,
98°11.694’E
, leg.
Hunyadi A.
,
09.II.2015
.,
HNHM
100176
(
holotype
),
HNHM
100442
(figured
paratype
),
coll.
HA
(
17 paratypes
+
9 juvenile
shells [not
paratypes
]),
coll.
PGB
,
2 paratypes
.
ETYMOLOGY. — The specific epithet
caligosus
(Latin: covered with mist) refers to the nickname of the Thai Province
Mae Hong Son
(“city of three mists”).
TYPE
LOCALITY. —
Thailand
,
Mae Hong Son Province
,
9.1 km
from
Ban Soppong
towards
Mae Hong Son
, left side of road #
1095, 785 m
a.s.l.
,
19°33.123’N
,
98°11.694’E
.
DIAGNOSIS. — Shell medium sized to large for the genus, slender turriform with regular ribs, very fine spiral striation (mostly on the upper whorls), and a reflected peristome.
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. — This new species is most similar to
P. peguensis
(
Theobald, 1864
)
in terms of shell size and the bulging whorls, but differs from that species in the less glossy shell, the much stronger ribs, and the reflected peristome.
Pseudopomatias shanensis
Páll-Gergely, 2015
also has less bulging whorls, a more
strongly expanded peristome and denser ribs with clearly visible spiral striation between them.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species is known from the
type
locality only.
DESCRIPTION
Shell off-white to yellowish, all examined shells covered in reddish soil; shell very slender turriform, widest at its base; the 8.5-9.25 (n = 5), strongly bulging whorls separated by deep suture; protoconch with 2.5 whorls, first
c.
0.75 whorl very finely granulated; remaining whorls very finely, regularly ribbed; teleoconch also finely, regularly ribbed; ribs rather strong, with triangular cross section; upper whorls with very fine spiral and radial lines, visible only under strong magnification (
Fig. 3F
); spiral lines getting weaker and less regular on last
c.
2 whorls (here area between ribs dominated by very fine radial lines,
Fig. 3G
); aperture rounded with very slightly angled columellar-parietal transition and slightly more sharply angled parietal-palatal transition; peristome whitish, expanded and strongly reflected; inner peristome protruding in some specimens, but the boundary between inner and outer peristomes usually hardy visible.
Operculum
Proteinaceous (“horny”), thin, flat (not concave); outer surface multispiral without elevated lamina; inner surface glossy, with a small, but elevated ventral nipple.
Radula (
Fig. 3F
)
Radula taenioglossate. Radular teeth arranged in v-shaped rows, each transverse row with seven teeth (2-1-1-1-2). Central (rachidian) tooth not constricted at its middle, with well-developed, slender, pointed central cusp and one smaller, pointed lateral cusp on each side; inner marginal (= lateral) teeth with four cusps, all pointed, central cusp being the largest; two outer marginal teeth with 4-4 slender, pointed cusps (except for the outermost cusp of outer marginal tooth, which is rather blunt triangular).
Measurements (in mm)
H = 9.7-12, D = 3.8-4.4 (smallest and largest shells measured).