Revision of the genus Pseudopomatias and its relatives (Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea: Pupinidae)
Author
Páll-Gergely, Barna
Author
Fehér, Zoltán
Author
Hunyadi, András
Author
Asami, Takahiro
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Zootaxa
2015
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journal article
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Pseudopomatias siyomensis
Godwin-Austen, 1917
Fig. 10
C
Pseudopomatias siyomensis
Godwin-Austen, 1917
: p. 578,
Figs 5
a, 6c.
Pseudopomatias siyomensis
—
Gude 1921
, pp 160–161.
Diagnosis.
A large species with strong, widely-spaced ribs and well-developed peristome consisting of two readily distinguishable circles.
Description.
The only known shell is corroded, the shell colour and the sculpture of the protoconch could not be observed; shell slender turriform; whorls
9 in
number and they are moderately bulging, separated by rather deep suture; teleoconch finely, regularly ribbed even behind the aperture, where the spaces between the ribs are wider than on the previous whorls; ribs seem to be stronger behind the aperture; aperture rounded with not angled columellar-parietal transition and slightly angled parietal-palatal transition; peristome very much thickened and slightly reflexed; it consists of a slimmer, protruding inner and a wider outer circle.
Measurements (in mm).
H: 12.2, D: 4.9 (n=1).
Differential diagnosis.
P. siyomensis
is larger than
P. himalayae
,
P. abletti
n. sp.
and
P. harl
i
n. sp.
Moreover,
P. himalayae
has a wider shell and more bulging whorls, and its aperture is oblique in lateral view;
P. abletti
n. sp.
has "reversed oblique", rather triangular aperture;
P. ha r l i
n. sp.
has turriform shell shape, lower ribs and a thinner apertural lip, which is not divided into two separated circles.
P. rei schuetzi
n. sp.
is slightly more slender, has a thinner apertural rim and almost smooth neck area (last half of whorl).
Type
material.
Siyom, Abor Hills, leg. Captain Oakes, coll. Godwin-Austen,
NHMUK
3406.03.7.1. (
holotype
).
Distribution.
P. siyomensis
is known from the
type
locality only. See also
Fig. 2
and
Table 3
.