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<mods:title>Erhaia Davis &amp; Kuo (Gastropoda, Rissooidea, Amnicolidae) also in Bhutan</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Gittenberger, Edmund</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Sherub, Sherub</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/304DE8F4-959A-4C7E-A497-00DA959CB99D" class="Gastropoda" family="Amnicolidae" genus="Erhaia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Erhaia wangchuki" order="Littorinimorpha" pageId="1" pageNumber="22" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="wangchuki">Erhaia wangchuki</taxonomicName>
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Figs 1, 2
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="22">Material.</paragraph>
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District Wangdue Phodrang, Gangchhu (Figs 5, 6), 2883 m alt.;
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="90.183334">90°11'E</geoCoordinate>
; Jigme Wangchuk leg. 21.iii.2015. National Biodiversity Centre, Serbithang, Thimphu [holotype NBCB1013, paratypes NBCB1014/2].
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="22">Shell.</paragraph>
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Conical, broader than high, with a flat apex because the initial
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-1 whorl is planispiral;
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whorls in total. Body whorl large, the height of the aperture exceeds that of the spire. Aperture with a broadly rounded outer lip and a nearly straight parietal side, so that a columellar border is hardly recognizable. Growthlines moderately strong, with a more prominent periostracal ridge at more or less regular distances. Teleoconch whorls broadly shouldered and separated by a deeply incised suture. Aperture oblique ovoid, smooth inside; apertural edge not touching the penultimate whorl. Umbilicus widely open. The holotype is the largest shell and measures 2.15
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1.77 mm.
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The shell differs from the shells of the three '
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' species reported from Nepal by
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by the large body whorl, the relative height of the aperture, and by being broader than high. The other species that are referred to as
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in the literature, from areas that are further apart than Bhutan and Nepal, also have different combinations of character states.
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="22">Notes.</paragraph>
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This species is known from the source of the Gangzetem brooklet, emerging from an underground spring aquifer surrounded by blue pine (
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) and a small open meadow (Figs 5, 6). The stream bed substrate, viz. pebbles, small rocks and parts of plants, is covered with dark-green algae, housing an abundant diversity of aquatic invertebrates. Alongside the brooklet are rhododendrons (
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,
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,
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), berries (
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,
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), betula (
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), larch (
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), daphne (Daphne bholua) and remnants of dead dwarf bamboo (
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).
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A farm road to the villages of Gangphel and Zizi crosses over the stream. The source is very close (~50m) to that road. The stream also spins a chhukhor, i.e. a water powered
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wheel. At the very outlet of the stream is a water tank, which supplies drinking water to Damchu Lhakhang. The brooklet meanders into the Phobji main stream, and measures about 1100 meters. During the pre-monsoon (21.03.2015) and post-monsoon (29.11.2015), physiochemical properties of the stream were measured. The water is almost neutral (pH 7.06, 7.58) and has a nearly stable temperature (6.76, 6.20
<normalizedToken originalValue="ºC">°C</normalizedToken>
).
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="23">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="23">
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, after Jigme Wangchuk, who discovered these minute snails.
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Figure 1.
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sp. n., sequenced paratype; scale bar 0.5 mm (photographs by B.S.); Bhutan, district Wangdue Phodrang, Gangchhu, 2883 m alt.;
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,
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; Jigme Wangchuk leg. 21.iii.2015.
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Figure 2.
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sp. n., holotype NBCB1013, measurements 2.15
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1.77 mm (photographs by E.G.); Bhutan, district Wangdue Phodrang, Gangchhu, 2883 m alt.;
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="90.183334">90°11'E</geoCoordinate>
; Jigme Wangchuk leg. 21.iii.2015.
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