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Named for Linda Davis, manager of the Mollusca collection at the
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24.56128°
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30.86367°
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(listed from north to south)
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, same data as
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4088, 5 dry specimens;
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24.56374°
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, northern mist-belt forest, in leaf-litter, D. Herbert, L. Davis &amp; M. Cole, stn 14-22,
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(
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W3501/T4087, three dry specimens); Mariepskop Forest Reserve,
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P0240/T4092, one dry specimen); Mariepskop Forest Reserve, Bushpig Trail,
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P0262/T4089, one dry specimen); Mariepskop Forest Reserve, Picnic Trail,
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, northern mist-belt forest, in leaflitter, D. Herbert, L. Davis &amp; M. Cole, stn 14-27,
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P0235/T4091, one dry juvenile specimen); Mariepskop Forest Reserve, east facing slope,
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, leg. M. Cole,
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D17729/T035, one dry specimen); Mariepskop Forest Reserve, in forest beside road at
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, leg. M. Cole,
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D18022/T036, three dry specimens;
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W3882/T037, two specimens in ethanol).
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBDFFEAFF7D9EC3FE8DF2DD" bold="true" box="[189,271,1928,1954]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Fig. 1.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBDFFEAFEDA9EC3FE5AF2DD" box="[282,472,1928,1954]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Gulella davisae</emphasis>
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. Holotype, height 6.1 mm, diameter 2.9 mm (NMSA P0418/ T4086).
<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBDFFEAFEE39EE7FEB5F2B9" bold="true" box="[291,311,1964,1990]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">E</emphasis>
. Juvenile specimen showing apertural dentition, diameter 2.7 mm (paratype, NMSA P0235/ T4091).
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBAFFEDFF7D9B6BFEDFF745" bold="true" box="[189,349,544,570]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Type locality</emphasis>
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:
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, Mariepskop Forest Reserve,
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBAFFEDFF7D9BDBFEE7F7D5" bold="true" box="[189,357,656,682]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Identification</emphasis>
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A moderately sized species of
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with a strongly ribbed, cylindrical shell and five-fold apertural dentition including,
<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBAFFEDFE6F9BA8FD9CF783" box="[431,542,738,764]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">inter alia</emphasis>
, a tricuspid mid-labral complex and a tricuspid
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lamella; also distinctive is the almost complete peristome, interrupted only behind the parietal lamella.
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBAFFEDFF7D9A0DFECCF61F" bold="true" box="[189,334,838,864]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">Description</emphasis>
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SHELL (
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). Medium-sized, cylindrical; adult height
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, diameter 2.83.0 mm; H:D 1.95 2.21, with up to 8.0 whorls. Protoconch diameter
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, comprising 1.52.0 whorls beyond nucleus, sculptured with fine, close-set axial wrinkles, with an indistinct spiral element appearing in the last halfwhorl; junction with teleoconch distinct. Teleoconch comprising 5.56.0 whorls; whorls weakly convex, but usually with a distinct, albeit narrow, shoulder such that suture is indented; sculpture of closeset, prosocline, axial ribs. Aperture roundly quadrate, peristome flaring, almost complete, interrupted only behind parietal lamella; apertural dentition 5-fold (
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): 1) a strong, vertical, slightly oblique parietal lamella; 2) a large mid-labral complex, itself with three smaller teeth, a simple peg-like upper one and below this a larger, in-running ridge with a large, roundly trigonal tooth at its outer end and a smaller one at its inner end, large outer tooth sometimes with an additional weak cusp on its lower margin; 3) a roundly trigonal basal tooth to left of centre; 4) a more deep-set, transverse, ridge-like, tooth (sometimes with two cusps) between basal tooth and mid-labral complex; 5) a large quadrate
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lamella with three denticles, the upper one usually horizontal and somewhat ridge-like, the middle one protruding furthest into aperture. In addition to the above, there may be a small sinular denticle delimiting a shallow notch behind parietal lamella. Mid-labral complex marked externally by a deep pit behind flared outer lip; a smaller pit underlies basal tooth;
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lip smooth. A juvenile of 2.25 teleoconch whorls exhibited a very small tooth on the upper
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lip and a larger, transverse mid-basal tooth (
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). Umbilicus open, drop-shaped and of moderate size, opening laterally some distance behind flared
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lip (
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). Shell milky-white when fresh, usually with some superficial soil debris, particularly in sutural indentation.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="49500235FFBAFFEDFF7D9F1FFB86F311" blockId="4.[189,1028,1619,1646]" box="[189,1028,1619,1646]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">LIVING ANIMAL. Head-foot yellow, optic retractor muscles bright orange.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="49500235FFBAFFEDFF7D9FDEFAB5F267" blockId="4.[189,1399,1684,1817]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">
RADULA. A single radula was available; corresponds to Group A of
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; formula 12 + 1 + 12; length ~
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, with 87 V-shaped rows of teeth; total number of teeth ~2175; rachidian extremely small; inner eight laterals of more or less equal size (37 slightly larger) with stout, blade-like cusp; base-plate with an oblique anchoring peg; outer laterals progressively smaller, the twelfth minute.
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DISTAL GENITALIA (
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). Penis of moderate length (~
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), subcylindrical, slightly broader distally, but somewhat constricted at junction with genital atrium; penial retractor undivided and attached to small penial caecum at penis apex. Lumen of penis with a single longitudinal pilaster running from area adjacent to penial caecum to base of penis; also with a raised subcircular pilaster near penis base; remainder of lumen with some weaker longitudinal folds and faint superficial striae; penial armature restricted to a small number of minute, trigonal hooks on apical portion of longitudinal pilaster. Vas deferens inserts laterally about halfway along penis, running toward penis base, then recurving along vagina and fusing with base of spermoviduct; vas deferens loosely adherent to penis base, but not fused to it; no evidence of a penis sheath or epiphallus. Atrium simple; vagina short and thin-walled; duct of gametolytic sac (bursa copulatrix) long, following course of spermoviduct to region of albumen gland; gametolytic sac itself narrow and elongate, scarcely broader than its duct; prostatic and oviductal portions of spermoviduct distinct; proximal portion of reproductive tract damaged and largely missing, but large fertilisation pouchspermathecal complex remaining.
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFF7D9B08FED4F722" bold="true" box="[189,342,579,605]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Distribution</emphasis>
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A narrow-range endemic, currently recorded only from Mariepskop Forest Reserve on the edge of the Drakensberg Escarpment in northern
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,
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; at altitudes from
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m
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.
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFF7D9B9DFE9FF78F" bold="true" box="[189,285,726,752]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Habitat</emphasis>
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Northern mist-belt forest (
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), in leaf-litter.
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFF7D9A0CFEADF61E" bold="true" box="[189,303,839,865]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Remarks</emphasis>
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The size and overall facies of the shell is similar to that of
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFC6C9A3EFBC3F6F0" box="[940,1089,885,911]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">G. johannae</emphasis>
Bruggen, 2006
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from the neighbouring Wolkberg massif. That species, like
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFCC09AD2FCFEF6CD" box="[768,892,920,947]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">G. davisae</emphasis>
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, has an almost complete peristome, interrupted only behind the parietal lamella and similar apertural dentition in the juvenile. However, the adult apertural dentition of the present species differs considerably from that of
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFB959A94FB66F687" box="[1109,1252,990,1017]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">G. johannae</emphasis>
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. In the latter this dentition is less complex, the mid-labral tooth is essentially a single entity rather than a complex of three denticles, there is no deep-set, ridge-like tooth to the right of the basal tooth and the columella lamella is a simple horizontal tooth. In addition, the shell of
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFC549D02FBA4F11D" box="[916,1062,1096,1123]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">G. johannae</emphasis>
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attains a slightly larger size (height up to
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), is somewhat more slender (H:D 2.162.88), and the umbilicus is wider and basally orientated.
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Bruggen, 1980
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, from the eastern highlands of
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, also has a ribbed shell and tricuspid labral and columella teeth, but it is larger (height
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), has distinct spiral sculpture on the protoconch and its peristome is broadly interrupted in the parietal region.
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFF7D9EE7FE88F2B9" bold="true" box="[189,266,1964,1990]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Fig. 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFED29EE7FE49F2B9" box="[274,459,1964,1990]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Gulella davisae</emphasis>
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, genitalia, paratype (NMSA P0269/T4090).
<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFBBFFECFBF99EE7FBCCF2B9" bold="true" box="[1081,1102,1964,1990]" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">A</emphasis>
. Distal portion of genital system.
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. Internal structure of penis.
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The almost complete peristome shared by
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFD7C983BFCBEF4F5" box="[700,828,368,394]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">G. davisae</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFC20983BFBF1F4F5" box="[992,1139,368,394]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">G. johannae</emphasis>
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is an unusual feature suggesting that the two are closely related and perhaps not members of
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Given that they occur in similar habitats on neighbouring mountain blocks, it seems likely that they are sister taxa derived from an ancestral stock that occurred on both blocks when forest cover was more extensive.
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFB349891FAF5F48B" box="[1268,1399,474,500]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">G. herberti</emphasis>
Bruggen, 2004
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, from southern Mpumalanga and
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, is another species with a similar peristome, but its shell is smaller (height ca 4.0 mm) and more globose, has a closed umbilicus and less complex apertural dentition. In
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFE7E9B0FFDBDF722" box="[446,575,579,606]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">G. herberti</emphasis>
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the peristome is almost completely detached from the preceding whorl, a condition taken to the extreme in
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from southern KwaZulu-Natal.
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noted the similarities between
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFDBD9BC1FD75F7DB" box="[637,759,650,676]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">G. salpinx</emphasis>
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and the Mascarene genus
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFBF19BC1FB5AF7DB" box="[1073,1240,650,676]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Microstrophia</emphasis>
Möllendorff, 1887
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, and
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observed that both possess needle-like spines in the apical part of the penis. Subsequent molecular work (
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) has shown that
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFC369B9BFBECF795" box="[1014,1134,720,746]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">G. salpinx</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFB659B9BFACEF795" box="[1189,1356,720,746]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Microstrophia</emphasis>
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are indeed related and that they cluster together with species of
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFCB69BB8FB88F672" box="[886,1034,755,781]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Primigulella</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFB829BB8FB57F672" box="[1090,1237,755,781]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Dadagulella</emphasis>
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rather than in
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However, such needle-like penial spines are not evident in
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFBC69A5CFB04F64F" box="[1030,1158,790,817]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">G. davisae</emphasis>
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, suggesting that the apertural similarities might be superficial or convergent. The structure of the distal genitalia of
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFF7D9A16FEBEF608" box="[189,316,861,887]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">G. davisae</emphasis>
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is unremarkable and is broadly comparable to that of many species of
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFB339A16FAC9F608" box="[1267,1355,861,887]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Gulella</emphasis>
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.
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Similarly, its Group A radula is the most common
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of radula in
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFC3D9ACBFBD7F6E5" box="[1021,1109,896,922]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Gulella</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFB9E9ACBFBFBF6E5" box="[1118,1145,896,922]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">s.l</emphasis>
.
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and thus neither the radula nor the distal genitalia provide significant data regarding the relationships of the species. Further clarity in this regard must await analysis of molecular data and for the meantime I simply refer the species to
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFEF79AA1FE0DF17B" box="[311,399,1002,1028]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">Gulella</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="7B9BDE27FFB8FFEFFE579AA1FE33F17B" box="[407,433,1002,1028]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="7">s.l</emphasis>
.
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