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Fenouilia yizhou 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)

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Fenouilia yizhou Xiang, He, Lu & Chen, sp. nov.

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Fig. 2 S, Fig. 7 D-F

Material examined. Holotype: XHQ 24011901, shell height 6.5 mm, Hongshatan [Ḧ沙滩], Lake Fuxian, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, China, 102°51′55″E, 24°37′42″N, January 2025, collected by Yue-Ming He, Hong-Quan Xiang and Chong-Ye Li (Fig 1).

Paratypes: 4 specimens (empty shell), XHQ 24011902-03, shell height 6.0– 6.2 mm, January 2025, locality and habitat same as holotype.

Diagnosis. Shell small, conical, grey, with six whorls, shell surface smooth, aperture ovate, inner lip thickened.

Description. Shell small, conical, grey, with six whorls. Shell surface smooth. Apex obtuse. Umbilicus closed. Aperture ovate. inner lip thickened and smooth, and outer lip smooth.

Differential diagnosis. Compared with F. kreitneri, F. sinensis and F. undata, Fenouilia yizhou sp. nov. shell surface smooth, without axial ribs. Compared with F. zihaozhaoi sp. nov. sp. nov., Fenouilia yizhou sp. nov. shell smaller and surface grey.

Etymology. The name of this species originates from the ancient geographical name "Yizhou" during the Western Han Dynasty in China. We suggest the Chinese common name as " ü州AEḄDz ".

Distribution and ecology. This species is only found in the lake sediments of Lake Fuxian in Yuxi, 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 62, 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
Fenouilia
Species
yizhou
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Fenouilia yizhou Xiang, Lu, He & Chen, 2025