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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45EBA2FFF1CF8342431F873" bold="true" box="[151,306,1965,1991]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Plekocheilus</emphasis>
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(
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A2C, 3A, 3B, 4A)
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFF1CFF242414FF63" bold="true" box="[151,279,189,215]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
A small species of
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFD8BFF242795FF62" box="[512,662,189,214]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Plekocheilus</emphasis>
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(up to
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) that is characterized by its almost uniform (dark-) yellowish to chestnut-brown colour, its finely malleated sculpture on the last whorl crossed by spiral lines and a rather strong columellar fold.
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFF1CFBF9241DFBCC" bold="true" box="[151,286,1120,1144]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
Shells of
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spp.
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFD15FBF827B2FBCC" box="[670,689,1121,1144]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">P.</emphasis>
(
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,
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holotype RMNH 114233.
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFB5EFBF92013FBCC" bold="true" box="[1237,1296,1120,1144]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">DG.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFA9CFBF82029FBCC" box="[1303,1322,1121,1144]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">P.</emphasis>
(
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, holotype RMNH 114235. Scale bar = 1 cm.
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFF4FFB5F245DFB54" bold="true" box="[196,350,1222,1248]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Description.</emphasis>
Shell: Up to
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high, 1.75 times longer than wide, imperforate, ovate, sides of spire slightly convex, moderately solid. Colour yellowish- to dark chestnut-brown; upper whorls lighter, whitish, eroded. Surface somewhat shining, with closely set riblets on the upper whorls, becoming finely malleated on the last whorl, crossed by spiral lines. Protoconch smooth (eroded). Whorls 4.0, rather flat, the last whorl slightly swollen; suture impressed, somewhat descending in front. Aperture elongate-ovate, somewhat pointed above, the stripes or spots from the outside shining through, in some specimens whitish inside, 1.6 times longer than wide, 0.51 times the total length; peristome thickened and strongly reflexed, dark brown. Columellar margin slightly curved, with a rather strong fold above, hardly and narrowly dilated above. Parietal wall with a thin, brownish callus.
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<paragraph id="293D36B0F45DBA2CFF4FF98F2750F971" blockId="2.[151,1437,1222,2032]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Genitalia: Penis subcylindrical, contorted before passing into the epiphallus without external differentiation. Flagellum contorted subdistally, with a short, distally attached retractor muscle; ca. 1/3 the length of the penial complex. The vas deferens is attached to the penial complex, slightly darker in colour and relatively broad. Vagina short; spermathecal duct subcylindrical, its upper part somewhat slenderer before passing into the globose spermatheca.</paragraph>
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Exterior of animal: Two living specimens of this new species were kept alive for more than three months in the laboratory. The colour of the animal is brownish- to yellowish-beige, with a slightly darker band on the dorsal side; the rim along the foot is also slightly darker (
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). In one of the animals the ocular tentacles were greyish-blackish towards the tips, in the other uniformly beige.
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFF4FF8FF242DF834" bold="true" box="[196,302,1894,1920]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Ecology.</emphasis>
The
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material was collected on the floor of a canyon covered with a dense
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFB6EF8FE2053F834" box="[1253,1360,1895,1920]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Bonnetia</emphasis>
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forest and low vegetation (
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F, 5G). Specimens described here were found on
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45DBA2CFB87F81521CBF811" box="[1036,1224,1932,1957]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Brocchinia tatei</emphasis>
(Bromeliaceae)
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.
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material.
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<typeStatus id="F6398812F45DBA2CFEF4F82824EFF87F" box="[383,492,1969,1995]" pageId="2" pageNumber="53" type="holotype">Holotype</typeStatus>
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114233,
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, Estado Bolivar, Chimantá massif, Churí-tepui, Sima Nor-oeste,
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, J. Schlögl leg.,
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.
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, same data as
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,
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114234/1, 114195/
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,
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92470/1, UF 434148/1.
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Comparison with other taxa. This new taxon is conchologically similar to
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<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFBC4FF2421E9FF62" box="[1103,1258,189,214]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Plekocheilus</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFB77FF242013FF62" box="[1276,1296,189,214]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">P.</emphasis>
)
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFAAEFF2425F6FF4F" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">fulminans alticola</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4D134B41F45CBA2DFF76FF7B2484FF48" author="Haas" box="[253,391,226,252]" pageId="3" pageNumber="60" refString="Haas, F. (1955) On some small collections of inland shells from South America. Fieldiana, Zoology, 34, 361 - 387." type="journal article" year="1955">Haas, 1955</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="EE824D33F45CBA2DFE4FFF7B26CDFF48" authority="Sowerby, 1890" authorityName="Sowerby" authorityYear="1890" box="[452,974,226,252]" class="Gastropoda" family="Orthalicidae" genus="Plekocheilus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Mollusca" rank="subSpecies" species="fulminans" subGenus="Plekocheilus" subSpecies="linterae">
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFE4FFF7B24D4FF4F" box="[452,471,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">P.</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFE66FF7B2702FF4F" box="[493,513,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">P.</emphasis>
)
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFD9DFF7B27F5FF4F" box="[534,758,226,251]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">fulminans linterae</emphasis>
(Sowerby, 1890)
</taxonomicName>
, both known from other tepui sites in Venezuelan Guayana (
<bibRefCitation id="4D134B41F45CBA2DFE21FE912748FE96" author="Breure" box="[426,587,264,290]" pageId="3" pageNumber="59" refString="Breure, A. S. H. (2009) New Orthalicidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Venezuelan Guayana: unravelling secrets from the Lost World. Zootaxa, 2065, 25 - 50." type="journal article" year="2009">Breure 2009</bibRefCitation>
). It differs from
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFC93FE912675FE95" box="[792,886,264,289]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">alticola</emphasis>
in (1) the absence of reddish-brown zig-zag streaks, and (2) being smaller. It differs from
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFD27FEB42604FEF2" box="[684,775,301,326]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">linterae</emphasis>
in (1) being smaller, and (2) being stouter. Compared to both taxa, the columellar fold in
<taxonomicName id="EE824D33F45CBA2DFD9DFECB2774FEDF" box="[534,631,338,363]" class="Gastropoda" family="Orthalicidae" genus="Plekocheilus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="vlceki">
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFD9DFECB2774FEDF" box="[534,631,338,363]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">P. vlceki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is less pronounced.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="6198653BF45CBA2DFF4FFEEE2096FE03" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="293D36B0F45CBA2DFF4FFEEE2096FE03" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,551]" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFF4FFEEE2443FE25" bold="true" box="[196,320,375,401]" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Remarks.</emphasis>
The extremely thin shell of one juvenile shows undulating reddish streaks on a light brown background. This may indicate that in this taxon the uniform colour of the shell is only reached in adulthood.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="6198653BF45CBA2DFF4FFE5B24B4FD93" pageId="3" pageNumber="54" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="293D36B0F45CBA2DFF4FFE5B24B4FD93" blockId="3.[151,1437,152,551]" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">
<emphasis id="1BF6EAA2F45CBA2DFF4FFE5B2457FE68" bold="true" box="[196,340,450,476]" pageId="3" pageNumber="54">Etymology.</emphasis>
Named in honour of Lukáš Vlček (Bratislava), a member of the Slovakian expedition that explored Chimantá in 2009. He discovered the snails at the localities where material of the taxa described in this paper was collected.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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