Sinoennea blanfordiana ( Godwin-Austen, 1872 )

Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Grego, Jozef, Sajan, Sheikh, Tripathy, Basudev & Chen, Zhe-Yu, 2020, A review of the Diapheridae (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Streptaxoidea), with special emphasis on India and Myanmar, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68, pp. 682-718 : 704

Sinoennea blanfordiana ( Godwin-Austen, 1872)

( Fig. 14F–J )

Ennea blanfordiana Godwin-Austen, 1872: 515 , pl. 30, fig. 4.

Ennea (Huttonella) blanfordi (sic) — Nevill, 1878: 7.

Ennea (Sinoennea) blanfordiana — Kobelt, 1904b: 154, pl. 20, fig. 21.

Ennea blanfordiana — W.T. Blanford & Godwin-Austen, 1908: 17.

Indoennea blanfordiana — Peile, 1929a: fig. 6 (drawings showing the dentate juvenile shell).

Sinoennea blanfordiana — Richardson, 1988: 155.

Ennea blanfordiana — Ramakrishna et al., 2010: 190.

Type locality. “ Máhádeo Peak , near Asálú, North Cachar hills, among rocks at 5700 feet ” .

Material examined. 1 shell separated + 19 shells in another vial (probably syntypes) ( NHMUK 1903.7.1.2872), Mahadeo Peak, Asalu, North Cachar ; 8 probable syntypes ( NHMUK 1903.7.1.2872a), Mahadeo Peak, Asalu, N. Cachar, coll. Godwin-Austen.

Remarks. Aperture subovoid, parietal callus well-developed, rounded, almost reaching half of penultimate whorl. Basal swelling situated close to the peristome. Parietal lamella well-developed, long, outer portion bent slightly towards columella, inner portion bent slightly towards the palatal wall. Columellar lamella relatively small, rounded but sharp, blade-like. Upper palatal tooth situated on the peristome edge, lower palatal tooth slightly elongated inside, the two sometimes connected with a ridge. Based on the key traits, this species is classified in Sinoennea .

Figures

Fig. 14. Shells of Sinoennea species. A–E, Ennea strophiodes Gredler, 1881 (type species of Sinoennea Kobelt, 1904), SMF 42769 (syntype); Sinoennea blanfordiana Godwin-Austen, 1872 (type species of Indoennea Kobelt, 1904), NHMUK 1903.7.1.2872 (syntype). Scale represents 5 mm.