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Rishetia pertenuis subsp. pertenuis Man & Ablett & Lwin & Sutcharit & Panha 2024, comb. nov.

  • 1. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand & Department of Zoology, University of Yangon, University Avenue Road, Kamayut Township 11041, Yangon, Myanmar
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
  • 3. Fauna and Flora International, No. 35, 3 rd Floor, Shan Gone Condo, Myay Ni Gone Market Street, Sanchaung Township, Yangon, Myanmar
  • 4. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand
  • 5. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand & Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Thailand, Bangkok 10300, Thailand

Description

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Rishetia pertenuis pertenuis(Blanford, 1865) comb. nov.

Fig. 15 A – E

Achatina pertenuis Blanford, 1865: 79. Type locality: Tongoop, Arakan [Taungup Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar]. Pfeiffer 1868: 237.

Achatina (Electra) pertenuis — Hanley and Theobald 1870: 9, pl. 18, fig. 5.

Stenogyra (Glessula) pertenuis — Nevill 1878: 169.

Stenogyra (Subulina) pertenuis — Pfeiffer and Clessin 1881: 327.

Glessula pertenuis — Beddome 1906: 160. Gude 1914: 380. Godwin-Austen 1920: 52–54, pls 164, fig. 11, pl. 159, figs 1, 2. Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 170.

Glessula tenuispira var. pertenuis — Pilsbry 1909: 89, 90, pl. 9, fig. 3.

Type specimen.

Possible syntypes NHMUK 1906.2. 2.239 (7 shells; Fig. 15 A, B) ex. Blanford collection from Henzada, Pegu and Tongoop, Arakan.

Other material.

NHMUK 1888.12. 4.1229–31 (3 shells; Fig. 15 D, E) from Pegu. NHMUK 20230921 (5 shells) from Tongoop, Arakan (Fig. 15 C).

Diagnosis.

Shell slender, elongate turreted, and rapidly attenuated near apical whorls; apex rounded; subsequent whorls nearly smooth, fine growth lines, and with equally spaced ridges near suture. Suture impressed and whorls slightly convex. Aperture ovate; columella concave and truncated.

Distribution.

This species was reported from several places in Myanmar: Henzada [Hinthada City, Ayeyarwady Region], Thayet Myo [Thayet City, Thayet District, Magway Region], Pegu [Bago Region], and Tongoop, Arakan [Taungup Township, Thandwe District, Rakhine State] (Nevill 1878; Gude 1914). It was also reported from Meghalaya State, India (Ramakrishna et al. 2010).

Remarks.

The original description does not clearly state how many specimens were available to the author, although only one set of measurements was given. The NHMUK collection contains a lot of seven specimens from the Blanford collection with this species name. However, this is a mixed specimen lot of the same species as it consists of two collection localities, ‘ Henzada, Pegu’ and ‘ Tongoop, Arakan’, where only the latter was mentioned in the original description as the type locality. Therefore, this specimen lot NHMUK 1906.2. 2.239 is considered as possible syntypes, from which two specimens are illustrated herein.

Notes

Published as part of Man, Nem Sian, Ablett, Jonathan D., Lwin, Ngwe, Sutcharit, Chirasak & Panha, Somsak, 2024, Contributions on a small collection of the former Subulinidae Fischer & Crosse, 1877 (Eupulmonata, Achatinoidea) with catalogue of the Glessula and Rishetia species recorded from Myanmar, pp. 173-239 in ZooKeys 1208 on pages 173-239, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1208.116083

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