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<emphasis bold="true" box="[810,1087,1226,1253]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Auricula sanchaheensis</emphasis>
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(ΞΔẦĄḋƦ)
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,
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<paragraph blockId="24.[810,1452,1322,2085]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[810,886,1323,1349]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Types.</emphasis>
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2005-06-03" collectionCode="GKJ" collectorName="Heng-mei Yan &amp; Ke-ji Guo &amp; Hong-bin Liang" country="China" county="Tengchong County" elevation="2300" latitude="24.94755" location="Sanchahe" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="98.75564" municipality="Bawan Township" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" specimenCode="GKJ039" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-female="1" stateProvince="Yunnan" typeStatus="holotype">
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,
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,
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,
</emphasis>
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, night collecting in broadleaf forest,
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,
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and
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leg. (
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[858,992,1483,1509]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Etymology.</emphasis>
This epithet derives from the
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locality.
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<paragraph blockId="24.[810,1452,1322,2085]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[858,980,1546,1572]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
This new species resembles
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Auricula triangulara</emphasis>
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in having the globular spermathecae present on lateral side of dorsal plate (
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;
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), but can be distinguished by posterior margin of the dorsal plate wave-shaped, protruding distinctly beyond the epigastric groove in
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<emphasis box="[1165,1357,1707,1733]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">A. sanchaheensis</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1363,1451,1707,1733]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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(
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), whereas straight, and not distinctly beyond the epigastric groove in
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<emphasis box="[1048,1211,1771,1797]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">A. triangulara</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1221,1313,1771,1797]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
(
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). Copulatory duct of the new species two times longer than that of
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<emphasis box="[889,1049,1835,1861]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">A. triangulara</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[1056,1146,1835,1861]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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(
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;
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).
</paragraph>
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<paragraph blockId="24.[810,1452,1322,2085]" lastBlockId="25.[136,778,1259,2085]" lastPageId="25" lastPageNumber="26" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[858,1099,1866,1893]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Description. Female</emphasis>
(
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,
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): Total length: 2.68. Carapace 1.29 long, 0.99 wide, brown, mid dorsally slightly elevated; fovea, cervical and radial grooves distinct. Clypeus 0.27 high. Sternum longer than wide, brown, sparsely covered with microsetae. Labium wider than longer. Maxillae long, distal end broad with scopulae. Chelicerae with four promarginal and five retromarginal teeth. Eye region narrow, AER straight, PER procurved slightly wider than AER. Eye sizes and interdistances:AME 0.06, ALE 0.10, PME 0.07, PLE 0.08, AMEAME 0.03, PMEPME 0.08, AMEALE, 0.03, PMEPLE 0.07, AMEPME 0.07, ALEALE 0.36, PLE PLE 0.42, ALEPLE contiguous. Legs lost. Abdomen 1.39 long, 0.89 wide, oval, greenish-grey, dorsally with two longitudinal black bands; ventral side dusky gray.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[136,270,1132,1157]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">FIGURE 22.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[275,514,1133,1157]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Auricula sanchaheensis</emphasis>
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, female holotype.
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Epigyne, ventral view
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Vulva, dorsal view.
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Epigyne (
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): wider than long, sclerotized; ventral plate connected with dorsal plate by septum to form shallow atrium with copulatory openings; dorsal plate sclerotized, with round wave-like margin protruding distinctly beyond the epigastric groove, mid ventrally with a shallow depression; copulatory openings narrow, present at the base of septum posteriorly. Vulva with long copulatory ducts, forming pairs of round broad loops anteriorly, extending above the spermathecae; spermathecae globular, on lateral side of dorsal plate, pointing away from each other.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[184,252,1867,1893]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Male.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[184,338,1898,1924]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Distribution.</emphasis>
Known only from the
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locality (
<figureCitation box="[144,229,1931,1957]" captionStart="FIGURE 29" captionStartId="32.[136,235,812,836]" captionTargetBox="[154,761,179,792]" captionTargetId="figure-25@32.[154,761,179,792]" captionTargetPageId="32" captionText="FIGURE 29. Distribution of Auricula gen. nov. species." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7526636" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7526636/files/figure.png" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Fig. 29</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="25" pageNumber="26" type="discussion">
<paragraph blockId="25.[136,778,1259,2085]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[184,300,1963,1989]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Remarks.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authority="Irfan &amp; Zhang &amp; Peng, 2022" authorityName="Irfan &amp; Zhang &amp; Peng" authorityYear="2022" box="[320,599,1963,1989]" class="Gastropoda" family="Achatinellidae" genus="Auricula" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="sanchaheensis" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis box="[320,599,1963,1989]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Auricula sanchaheensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" box="[619,721,1963,1989]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[619,721,1963,1989]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
has been described with the only
<typeStatus box="[485,583,1995,2021]" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">holotype</typeStatus>
female that was dried out. But the epigyne is undamaged, so it is used to describe this species.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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