Published May 21, 2019 | Version v1
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Landouria leucochila Nurinsiyah & Neiber & Hausdorf 2019, comb. nov.

  • 1. Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Science, Cibinong, West Java, Indonesia.
  • 2. Zoological Museum, Center of Natural History, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
  • 3. Zoological Museum, Center of Natural History, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.

Description

Landouria leucochila (Gude, 1905) comb. nov.

Fig. 81; Tables 3–4

Plectotropis leucochila Gude, 1905: 14, pl. 3, figs 1a–c (“ Java ”).

Landouria rotatoria – van Benthem Jutting 1950: 461 (in part). (not Pfeiffer, 1842)

Diagnosis

Landouria leucochila is characterized by a large, depressed conical, yellowish shell with an angular body whorl, a wide umbilicus and scales all over the teleoconch.

Material examined

Holotype

INDONESIA • holotype; Java; NHM 1922.8.29.87.

Description

SHELL (Fig. 81; Tables 3–4). Depressed conical, with 5.25 hardly convex whorls; protoconch almost smooth; teleoconch with irregular wrinkles; apical side with indistinct incised spiral lines, umbilical side with more distinct spiral lines; scaly processes all over teleoconch; tuberculate around umbilicus; yellowish; body whorl angular; aperture oval; upper insertion of peristome descending; peristome expanded, reflexed and distinctly thickened; umbilicus eccentric, wide, comprising 30% of shell diameter, hardly obscured by columellar edge.

GENITALIA. Unknown.

Distribution

The type locality and the distribution of L. leucochila in Java remain unknown.

Notes

Published as part of Nurinsiyah, Ayu Savitri, Neiber, Marco T. & Hausdorf, Bernhard, 2019, Revision of the land snail genus Landouria Godwin-Austen, 1918 (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) from Java, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 526 on pages 58-60, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.526, http://zenodo.org/record/3152217

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHM
Material sample ID
NHM 1922.8.29.87
Scientific name authorship
Nurinsiyah & Neiber & Hausdorf
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Stylommatophora
Family
Camaenidae
Genus
Landouria
Species
leucochila
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Landouria leucochila (Gude, 1905) sec. Nurinsiyah, Neiber & Hausdorf, 2019

References

  • Gude G. K. 1905. Description of nine new species of helicoid land shells. Journal of Malacology 12: 11 - 14, pls 3 - 4.
  • van Benthem Jutting W. S. S. 1950. Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australian archipelago. II. Critical revision of the Javanese pulmonate land-shells of the families Helicarionidae, Pleurodontidae, Fruticicolidae and Streptaxidae. Treubia 20: 381 - 505.
  • Pfeiffer L. 1842. Symbolae ad Historiam Heliceorum. Sectio alterna. T. Fischer, Cassel [Kassel, Germany]. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11903
  • Mollendorff O. F. von. 1897. Neue Landschnecken von Java. Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 29: 57 - 72, 89 - 97.