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<paragraph id="9A37DA19B72883F24437D141496A34FC" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Taxon classification Animalia Mesogastropoda Diplommatinidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="B5CB1C55EE13758CF604271FD9126FDE" ID-CoL="7SLB5" authority="Mousson, 1870" authorityName="Mousson" authorityYear="1870" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Palaina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Palaina subregularis" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="subregularis">Palaina subregularis (Mousson, 1870)</taxonomicName>
Figs 86-92
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<subSubSection id="AE76613D54BBCED819ACA680BAE3B42B" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" type="reference_group">
<paragraph id="4809BDD1042FF8ED34269837B3AE8948" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">
<taxonomicName id="18D4DB762AFA8CD7594168CEB54F5A99" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Diplommatina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Diplommatina subregularis" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="subregularis">Diplommatina subregularis</taxonomicName>
Mousson 1870, Journal de Conchyliologie, 18: 181, pl. VIII, fig. 3. Type locality: &quot;Nagara, petite
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de la
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sud de Viti-Levu&quot;.
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<paragraph id="9892055EB965A5C5578EB6C23BBBA0B6" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">
<taxonomicName id="5D842B66E115BDBAB2B5C4C03A5A8BC4" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Diplommatina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Diplommatina graeffei" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="graeffei">Diplommatina graeffei</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken id="B27F5DFD993F56650FA959B098A8F7CE" originalValue="Möllendorff">Moellendorff</normalizedToken>
1897, Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft, 29 (1/2): 44 [name attributed by
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to Mousson]. Type locality: Vitilevu. New synonym.
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<taxonomicName id="36BEE15917D96AC7D0A922F30CF9ADD6" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Palaina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Palaina (Palaina) subregularis" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="subregularis" subGenus="Palaina">Palaina (Palaina) subregularis</taxonomicName>
, - Kobelt 1902,
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: 405.
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<taxonomicName id="60A5DD3D388D764D6A653B5AE8E70360" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Diancta" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Diancta (Diancta) graeffei" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="graeffei" subGenus="Diancta">Diancta (Diancta) graeffei</taxonomicName>
, - Kobelt 1902,
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: 420.
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<paragraph id="1884B4FA30AF1BB9F458A1AA0C9872EE" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Type data.</paragraph>
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No type specimens of
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could be traced in MNHN or in ZMZ. Under the name
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, the Mousson collection houses the lot ZMZ 526677 which, according to the handwritten label, originates from &quot;Viti Levu, Graeffe 1872&quot;. Although identified by Mousson himself as his
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, this lot is not type material, because it reached Mousson two years after the description of the taxon, and it does not originate from the type locality. From the same locality &quot;Viti Levu&quot;, four specimens in SMF 105079/4 (coll.
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ex Mousson, also as
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), had been identified as
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by A. Zilch. It is highly probable that these specimens also come from ZMZ 526677, and thus were not originally part of the type series. Moreover, SMF 105079/4 consists of three shells that do match with &quot;
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&quot; in the sense of Mousson, and one that does not, but is
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. In order to stabilize the application of this name, we here designate a neotype from ZMZ 526677, because the specimens from this lot match the description of Mousson very well. Neotype:
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ZMZ 526677a, Viti Levu, coll. Mousson ex Graeffe 1872 (Fig. 86).
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Figures 86-92.
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(Mousson, 1870). 86 Neotype ZMZ 526677a, Viti Levu, H = 3.5 mm 86 specimen ex ZMZ 526677, last whorl opened to show internal lamellae (enlarged, not to scale) 88 ditto, operculum 88a inner surface, 88b outer surface) 89
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(
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, 1897), lectotype SMF 104903 Viti Levu, H = 2.7 mm. 90 Viti Levu, Tuvu karst, H = 3.62 91 ditto, last whorl opened to show internal lamellae (enlarged, not to scale). 92 ditto, operculum, 92a inner surface, 92b outer surface. Figures 86, 89, 90
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10, Figures 88, 92
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40 magnification.
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<taxonomicName id="A1DD000662D9A3F9E16C1E9BF023F9C5" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Diplommatina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Diplommatina graeffei" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="39" pageNumber="40" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="graeffei">Diplommatina graeffei</taxonomicName>
: lectotype, designated by
<bibRefCitation id="D942819B2E55FAFEF73A54B1627CE39C" author="Zilch, A" journalOrPublisher="Archiv fuer Molluskenkunde" pageId="65" pageNumber="66" pagination="1 - 47" title="Die Typen und Typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 9: Mollusca, Cyclophoridae, Diplommatininae." volume="82" year="1953">Zilch (1953</bibRefCitation>
: 17, pl. 6 fig. 89), SMF 104903/1, Fiji, Viti Levu, coll.
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ex Mousson. The name
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had already been used by Mousson in his collection (ZMZ 526702/many, &quot;
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Mss., Viti Levu (Graeffe)&quot;), but had remained a manuscript name. The lectotype of
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matches the shells in this lot so well that the SMF specimen most probably originates from this lot; however, there is no evidence that
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ever saw the specimens in the Mousson collection when he published the name
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, and the specimens in ZMZ 526702 are not regarded by us as paralectotypes.
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<paragraph id="98D15903D4FC452A2D17D9D314098059" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Material.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="876199A82161BCB3A96F00EB9278B5C3" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">
SMF 105079/4, Fiji, Viti Levu, coll.
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ex Mousson; Viti Levu, Voli Voli limestone outcrop, 10-30 m, secondary open forest, -17.3374 178.1831, leg. Bouchet,
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&amp; Dayrat, 18.02.1999, MNHN/8; Viti Levu, limestone outcrop SE of Nambukulevu, 230 m, rainforest, -18.1366 177.8149, leg. Bouchet,
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&amp; Dayrat, 20.02.1999, MNHN/6; Viti Levu, Qalimare karst, Toga village, 30-130 m, dry forest, -17.9953 177.5768, leg. Bouchet, 21.08.1998, MNHN/255, NMBE 516896/20; Viti Levu, Tuvu karst, 50 m, dry forest, -17.9332 177.7067, leg. Bouchet, 23.08.1998, MNHN/172, NMBE 516897/20.
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<paragraph id="BBAB046FEA52B2E06AFAC977510C16C9" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="42E9D4847B0F04ED546D012AE5E57A88" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Shell sinistral, elongate oval, teleoconch whorls with widely spaced ribs, brown axial flames or blotches between the ribs, aperture circular, bulb reduced, columella a broad lamella, basally with columellar tooth.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="37A3A208D98C816DD61F52426D040665" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="085B28917FEDF8D551ECF52DA1C31967" pageId="39" pageNumber="40">Shell sinistral, elongate oval, eroded shells purely white, well preserved specimens with a pattern of brown axial flames or blotches between the ribs; protoconch acute, granulated; last whorl not constricted, slightly ascending; bulb reduced, demarcated by a faint bulb lamella; umbilicus closed, periomphalum narrow; sculpture of teleoconch whorls with widely spaced ribs, ribbing pattern above the aperture somewhat denser; aperture circular, sometimes with a double lip demarcated by a brown line, adhered to the last whorl; oblique view into the aperture revealing a strong columellaris; internally, columella forming a broad lamella extending towards the interior of shell, basally forming a columellar tooth.</paragraph>
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corneous, outer surface with several concentric lamellae and a single, short raised lamella; internal surface concave, smooth.
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<paragraph id="57C28A638DB51C5B7E104FEFDDF40347" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">Measurements.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A01F10DB8DE5CF3D9D37B719A480C29A" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">
Neotype of
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(Fig. 86): H = 3.5; D = 1.71; PH = 1.24; PD = 1.26; W = 7; lectotype of
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(Fig. 89): H = 2.7; D = 1.35; PH = 0.99; PD = 0.89; W = 7.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="5140260328C9687B6800FDE19DA00350" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">Distribution</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2DABCEA8653D6C21CB0FC7D43B1492D3" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">(Fig. 170). Quite widespread on Viti Levu.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="7F515B06004EF90822C32B8BAE6A5AC6" pageId="40" pageNumber="41">Remarks.</paragraph>
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After a careful comparison of the lectotype of
<taxonomicName id="F53AD711D549B2663C2E6C881C223084" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Diplommatina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Diplommatina graeffei" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="graeffei">Diplommatina graeffei</taxonomicName>
with the rest of the material attributed to
<taxonomicName id="FB69BE096B0EE2158517BC97CFE47A71" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Palaina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Palaina subregularis" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="subregularis">Palaina subregularis</taxonomicName>
, it was not possible to find any discriminating characters between the two taxa besides shell size, and we conclude that the former is a small specimen of the latter.
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For a differential diagnosis, refer to
<taxonomicName id="441314D7196FAA53449F7F5360AC6768" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Palaina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Palaina flammulata" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="flammulata">Palaina flammulata</taxonomicName>
sp. n.,
<taxonomicName id="A88E37C952472FA0571862FB2959DE3F" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Palaina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Palaina truncata" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="truncata">Palaina truncata</taxonomicName>
sp. n., and
<taxonomicName id="6503782E1910D34CDC04DF94668F3FA4" class="Gastropoda" family="Diplommatinidae" genus="Palaina" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Palaina parietalis" order="Architaenioglossa" pageId="40" pageNumber="41" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="parietalis">Palaina parietalis</taxonomicName>
sp. n.
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