New taxa of land snails from French Guiana
Author
Gargominy, Olivier
Service du Patrimoine naturel, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, case postale 41, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) gargo @ mnhn. fr
gargo@mnhn.fr
Author
Muratov, Igor V.
KwaZulu-Natal Museum, P. Bag 9070, Pietermaritzburg 3200 (South Africa) Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, 3206 (South Africa) imuratov @ nmsa. org. za
text
Zoosystema
2012
2012-12-31
34
4
783
792
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2012n4a7
journal article
10.5252/z2012n4a7
1638-9387
5166717
Genus
Pseudosubulina
Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882
Pseudosubulina
Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882: 117
.
TYPE
SPECIES
. —
Pseudosubulina berendti
Pfeiffer, 1862
, by original designation.
DISTRIBUTION. — Central America and
Cuba
.Record from
Jamaica
by
Schileyko (2000:840
, 841) is based on mistaken classification of
Sigmataxis macrospira
(Adams, 1851)
.
EMENDATIONS TO THE DIAGNOSIS. — In addition to diagnostic characters indicated by
Schileyko (2000: 840
, 841), genus now includes species with proximal penial stimulator, as well as with apertural dentition (see descriptions of two new species below).
REMARKS
Thompson (2010: 197)
apparently made a mistake stating the presence of an epiphallus in
Pseudosubulina
. There is no epiphallus in the genital apparatus of the
type
species (
P. berendti
) nor in the new species described below. The vas deferens enters the penis directly through the base of the penial retractor and there are no apparent structural differences between the proximal and distal parts of the penis that could suggest the possibility of a spermatophore creation in the former.