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Paraprososthenia bronyaae Xiang, He, Lu & Chen 2025, sp. nov.

  • 1. Yuxi Agriculture Vocation-Technical College Department of Animal Science, Xiangjiazhuang 41, Yanhe Street, Hongta District, Yuxi City, China. E-mail: 3044655033 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0005 - 6737 - 3092
  • 2. Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, Alabama, United States of America. E-mail: yizhilu 698 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0005 - 6054 - 4952
  • 3. College of Engineering and Technology, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin 300384, China. E-mail: 1123649307 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0002 - 9849 - 7977
  • 4. Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 10008, China. E-mail: LCY 2395933264 @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0009 - 3279 - 139 X
  • 5. Fuzhou University College of Computer and Data Science / College of Software, Fuzhou 350108, China. E-mail: boxcos @ foxmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0007 - 8458 - 7222
  • 6. Kuang Wei Yu Memorial Middle School, Huadu District, Guangzhou 510800, China. E-mail: 3522450979 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0004 - 9908 - 0190
  • 7. School of Life Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China. https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0004 - 5222 - 3975 Corresponding authors. Hui Chen (E-mail: nnuchenhui @ 163. com), Hong Quan Xiang (E-mail: 3044655033 @ qq. com)

Description

Paraprososthenia bronyaae Xiang, He, Lu & Chen, sp. nov.

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Fig. 2 A, Fig. 3 A-C

Material examined. Holotype: XHQ 24010101, shell height 21.0 mm. Zhongshu Town [中ŀDz], Luliang County [La县], Qujing City [曲⁂市], Yunnan Province, China, 25.02°N, 103.66°E, June 2021, collected by Yue-Ming He and Hong-Quan Xiang (Fig. 1).

Paratypes: 2 specimens, XHQ 24010102-03, shell height 20.2-25.0 mm, June 2023, locality and habitat same as holotype.

Diagnosis. Shell small, elongate conic, grey, with ten whorls, the whorls with very obvious keels, aperture ovate, inner lip thickened, outer lip reflexed and thickened.

Description. Shell small, but solid, elongate conic, grey, with ten whorls, including two protoconch whorls, teleoconch whorl not swollen; third to fifth whorls with very week keels; other whorls with two very obvious keels; body whorls not swollen. Shell surface with axial growth lines. Apex obtuse. Umbilicus narrow and small, base with one keel around umbilical area. Aperture ovate, inner lip thickened and smooth; outer lip thickened and reflexed.

Differential diagnosis. Compared with P. costata (Tchang & Tsi, 1949) and P. constricta (Tchang & Tsi, 1949), Paraprososthenia bronyaae sp. nov. shell surface lacks nodules and with two very obvious keels. Compared to Parapyrgula coggini (Annandale & Prashad, 1919), the shell of Paraprososthenia bronyaae sp. nov. is larger, with more whorls, and more pronounced keels.

Etymology. The species name " bronyaae " originates from female characters in the games Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai: Star Rail. We suggest the Chinese common name as " 布洛ĸṅ川ϐ ".

Distribution and ecology. This species is only found in the lake sediments of Lake Lulianghai in Luliang, Yunnan Province.

Notes

Published as part of Xiang, Hong Quan, Lu, Yi Zhi, He, Yue Ming, Li, Chong Ye, Gao, Han, Lv, Ang Song & Chen, Hui, 2025, Twenty-seven new species and four new genera of Gastropoda (Animalia: Mollusca) from plateau lake Quaternary sediments in Yunnan, southwestern China, pp. 48-71 in Ecologica Montenegrina 84 on page 50, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.84.6, http://zenodo.org/record/16960274

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Xiang, He, Lu & Chen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Littorinimorpha
Family
Pomatiopsidae
Genus
Paraprososthenia
Species
bronyaae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Paraprososthenia bronyaae Xiang, Lu, He & Chen, 2025