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Figs 
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<emphasis box="[181,480,766,787]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="628">Gulella (Avakubia) avakubiensis</emphasis>
: 
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, fig. 22;
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van 
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.
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<paragraph blockId="23.[181,1142,687,1677]" pageId="23" pageNumber="628">Etymology: The species name refers to the Bioko I., where the species is likely to be endemic.</paragraph>
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Diagnosis: 
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differs from 
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can be readily distinguished from 
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in having a smaller shell, more pointed apex and more widely spaced teleoconch ribs. 
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differs from both 
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and 
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<emphasis box="[181,237,1138,1164]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="628">Shell</emphasis>
(
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Figs 
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, 
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, 
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): Medium-sized (mean H 
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4.46. Protoconch raised but not acuminate, consisting of 
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13), and less wide, at most 8 µm. Teleoconch sculpture with relative dense, regularly spaced, curved axial ribs, about 9.8–10.8 ribs/mm on penultimate whorl, median 10.0 ribs/mm, in 
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10.8 ribs/mm, with fine, irregular spirals in interstices. Last whorl not exceeding half the shell height, BWH 47–48 % of H, in 
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47 %. Peristome complete, higher than wide; 
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1.13. 
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36–37% of H, median 36 %, in 
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36%. PW 53–62 % of H, median 58%, in 
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58 %. Apertural lip wide and flaring, but hardly incrassate.Two apertural barriers visible in frontal view: a weak, blunt thickening on mid-palatal wall and a projecting angular tooth that extends inwards as deeply entering lamella. Internal wall body whorl with short, deep-set palatal fold, externally visible as pale stripe in 
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(
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). Columellar lamella externally not discernable in the available specimens. Umbilicus narrow but open.
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: Dried tissue in 
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shell pale orange-red.
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: Unknown.
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(see van 
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(
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[
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(=Bericorico?], 
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(
<specimenCode box="[446,580,474,496]" collectionCode="RBINS" country="Belgium" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35271" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35271" name="Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" type="Museum">RBINS 21612</specimenCode>
)
</materialsCitation>
; 
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<specimenCount box="[594,638,474,496]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" type="generic">1 ad.</specimenCount>
dry shell 
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03BB8789FF925E16CC60FD0BFE49C6E5:8ECD6044FF9D5E17CFDFFE7EFCDFC3A4" box="[724,828,474,495]" county="Antonio Ortiz de Zarate" municipality="En" name="Basile Bubi" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">Basilé Bubi</location>
</emphasis>
, 
<emphasis box="[838,1003,474,496]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">
<collectingMunicipality box="[838,863,475,496]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">En</collectingMunicipality>
<taxonomicName authority="Borabecho" authorityName="Borabecho" box="[868,1003,474,496]" class="Insecta" family="Pentatomidae" genus="Rio" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Rio Borabecho</taxonomicName>
</emphasis>
, 
<date box="[1014,1100,474,496]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" value="1954-04-04">
<collectingDate box="[1014,1100,474,496]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" value="1954-04-04">4.iv.1954</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectingCounty box="[144,359,498,520]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">Antonio Ortiz de Zárate</collectingCounty>
(
<specimenCode box="[370,495,498,520]" collectionCode="MNCN" country="Spain" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35275" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35275" name="Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" type="Museum">MNCN 15.05</specimenCode>
/26565)
</materialsCitation>
; 
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<specimenCount box="[577,621,498,520]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" type="generic">1 ad.</specimenCount>
dry shell 
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03BB8789FF925E16CC60FD0BFE49C6E5:8ECD6044FF9D5E17CFCFFE56FD1EC04C" box="[708,765,498,519]" county="Adolfo Ortiz de Zarate" municipality="Borabecho" name="Basile" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">Basilé</location>
</emphasis>
, 
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03BB8789FF925E16CC60FD0BFE49C6E5:8ECD6044FF9D5E17CE03FE57FC8AC043" box="[776,873,499,520]" county="Adolfo Ortiz de Zarate" municipality="Borabecho" name="Bericorico" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">Bericorico</location>
y 
<collectingMunicipality box="[893,992,498,519]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">Borabecho</collectingMunicipality>
</emphasis>
(orig. handwritten lable, printed museum label reads: 
<emphasis box="[535,790,522,544]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">Rios Ericorico y Borabecho</emphasis>
, 
<emphasis box="[803,860,522,543]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">Basilé</emphasis>
), 
<date box="[879,949,522,544]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" value="1947-09">
<collectingDate box="[879,949,522,544]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" value="1947-09">ix.1947</collectingDate>
</date>
, 
<collectingCounty pageId="24" pageNumber="629">Adolfo Ortiz de Zárate</collectingCounty>
(
<specimenCode box="[213,339,546,568]" collectionCode="MNCN" country="Spain" httpUri="http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35275" lsid="urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:35275" name="Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales" pageId="24" pageNumber="629" type="Museum">MNCN 15.05</specimenCode>
/26569)
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="24.[144,1103,588,646]" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">
Distribution (
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): Only known from a few localities near Basilé. The species is likely to be endemic to Bioko I.
</paragraph>
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Fig. 12. 
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<emphasis box="[216,401,1631,1652]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="629">Avakubia biokoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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, holotype, RMNH.MOL.327295, apertural (A), lateral (B, C), umbilical (D) and apical (E) views. Scale bar = 1 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
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Habitat: Unknown except for a few notes by 
<bibRefCitation author="ORTIZ DE ZARATE LOPEZ, A. &amp; ORTIZ DE ZARATE ROCANDIO, A." pageId="25" pageNumber="630" pagination="75 - 140" refId="ref27285" refString="ORTIZ DE ZARATE LOPEZ, A. &amp; ORTIZ DE ZARATE ROCANDIO, A. 1956. Contribuciones al conocimiento de la fauna malacologica terrestre de la isla de Fernando Poo. II. Familia Streptaxidae. Boletin de Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 53: 75 - 140." type="journal article" year="1956">Ortiz de Zárate Lopez and Ortiz de Zárate Rocandio (1956: 118)</bibRefCitation>
: lives in forest along a stream; a specimen from Bonyoma (see Remarks) was found in secondary forest. 
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<emphasis box="[651,801,268,294]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">A. biokoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is probably a lowland species (in contrast to 
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<emphasis box="[344,582,300,326]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">A. ortizdezarateorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
), the area around Basilé lying at around 
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<quantity box="[1038,1112,300,326]" metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.0" pageId="25" pageNumber="630" unit="m" value="400.0">400 m</quantity>
.
</specimenCount>
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="25.[181,1142,204,1198]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">
Remarks: The apical sculpture of 
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, the 
<typeStatus box="[764,862,340,366]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">holotype</typeStatus>
and the RBINS 
<typeStatus box="[1039,1138,340,366]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">paratype</typeStatus>
, differs in number and width of the spiral cords (studied by SEM). The sculpture of the third available specimen (studied under a stereomicroscope, 60× magnification) resembles that of the 
<typeStatus box="[424,525,436,462]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">holotype</typeStatus>
, the fourth shell that of the 
<collectingRegion box="[837,932,436,462]" country="Belgium" name="Region de Bruxelles-Capitale" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">Brussels</collectingRegion>
<typeStatus box="[940,1040,436,462]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">paratype</typeStatus>
. We provisionally consider this a case of intraspecific variation.
</paragraph>
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All material of this species was originally in the collection of Adolfo Ortiz de Zárate Lopez, who exchanged 
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land snails with various professional and amateur malacologists. Only 
<specimenCount box="[417,590,564,590]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630" type="generic">four specimens</specimenCount>
of 
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<emphasis box="[630,781,564,590]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">A. biokoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
could be located for this study. Ortiz de Zárate Lopez’s collection with 
<specimenCount box="[625,791,596,622]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630" type="generic">two specimens</specimenCount>
arrived in MNCN Madrid after his death. The best preserved, evidently live-collected, shell studied by us was originally in the collection of C. Altimira, now in RMNH. Another specimen was exchanged with the late W. Adam and is now in RBINS. 
<bibRefCitation author="ORTIZ DE ZARATE LOPEZ, A. &amp; ORTIZ DE ZARATE ROCANDIO, A." pageId="25" pageNumber="630" pagination="75 - 140" refId="ref27285" refString="ORTIZ DE ZARATE LOPEZ, A. &amp; ORTIZ DE ZARATE ROCANDIO, A. 1956. Contribuciones al conocimiento de la fauna malacologica terrestre de la isla de Fernando Poo. II. Familia Streptaxidae. Boletin de Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 53: 75 - 140." type="journal article" year="1956">Ortiz de Zárate Lopez and Ortiz de Zárate Rocandio (1956)</bibRefCitation>
list 
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from Basilé Bubi, but the collection dates differ from those on the labels of the material studied here. This suggests that the number of shells of 
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<emphasis box="[312,462,788,814]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">A. biokoensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the Ortiz de Zárate Lopez’s collection originally has been larger, the whereabouts of missing material being unclear. In RMNH, there is a copy of an unpublished list (dated 
<date box="[519,660,851,878]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630" value="1958-03">March 1958</date>
, probably compiled by A. Ortiz de Zárate Lopez) of terrestrial Mollusca from 
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sent to the “Direccion General de Provincias y Plazas Africanas”, mentioning material of “ 
<emphasis box="[836,1070,916,942]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">G. (A.) avakuviensis</emphasis>
” (sic) from Basilé Bubi. The fate of this institute’s collection appears to be unknown (
<bibRefCitation author="VILLENA, M. &amp; APARICIO, M. T. &amp; BARATECH, L. &amp; TEMPLADO, J." pageId="25" pageNumber="630" pagination="1 - 170" refId="ref27870" refString="VILLENA, M., APARICIO, M. T., BARATECH, L. &amp; TEMPLADO, J. 1997. Los &quot; ejemplaros typo &quot; de las colecciones malacologicas del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Volumen II. Monografias del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 11: 1 - 170, pls 1 - 3." type="journal article" year="1997">
Villena 
<emphasis box="[236,293,980,1006]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">et al.</emphasis>
1997
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph blockId="25.[181,1142,204,1198]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">
<bibRefCitation author="ORTIZ DE ZARATE LOPEZ, A. &amp; ORTIZ DE ZARATE ROCANDIO, A." box="[208,889,1011,1038]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630" pagination="75 - 140" refId="ref27285" refString="ORTIZ DE ZARATE LOPEZ, A. &amp; ORTIZ DE ZARATE ROCANDIO, A. 1956. Contribuciones al conocimiento de la fauna malacologica terrestre de la isla de Fernando Poo. II. Familia Streptaxidae. Boletin de Real Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural 53: 75 - 140." type="journal article" year="1956">Ortiz de Zárate Lopez and Ortiz de Zárate Rocandio (1956)</bibRefCitation>
mention a single specimen from Bonyoma that is said to differ by a smaller shell, proportionally less elongate aperture, straight outer lip and a not ascending last whorl. The whereabouts of this specimen, which might constitute still another 
<taxonomicName box="[798,993,1108,1134]" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">
<emphasis box="[798,902,1108,1134]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">Avakubia</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
on Bioko, is presently unknown. Material from the Pico de Isabel listed by these authors belongs to 
<taxonomicName authorityName="de Winter &amp; Vastenhout" authorityYear="2013" box="[181,420,1172,1198]" class="Gastropoda" family="Streptaxidae" genus="Avakubia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stylommatophora" pageId="25" pageNumber="630" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="ortizdezarateorum">
<emphasis box="[181,420,1172,1198]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="630">A. ortizdezarateorum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
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