Glessula woodthorpei Godwin-Austen, 1920

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, ZooKeys 1208, pp. 173-239 : 173-239

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1208.116083

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13137126

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scientific name

Glessula woodthorpei Godwin-Austen, 1920
status

 

19 Glessula woodthorpei Godwin-Austen, 1920

Fig. 11 C – E View Figure 11

Glessula woodthorpei Godwin-Austen, 1920: 58, pl. 162, fig. 19. Type locality: Shan States [Shan State, Myanmar]. View in CoL

Type specimens.

Syntypes NHMUK 1903.7. 1.1628 [re-registered in error as 1986051] (9 shells; Fig. 11 C – E View Figure 11 ) collected by Woodthorpe ex. Godwin-Austen collection from Shan States.

Other material.

NHMUK 1903.7. 1.3655 (2 shells) collected by Woodthorpe ex. Godwin-Austen collection from Siam N. W. Boundary.

Diagnosis.

Shell oblong conical and regularly attenuated; spire high conical; embryonic whorls rounded; subsequent whorls nearly smooth and equally spaced radial ridges appeared near suture. Suture impressed and whorls slightly convex. Aperture ovate; columella strong, concave, and truncated.

Distribution.

This species is known from Shan State, Myanmar with an additional record from Thailand.

Remarks.

Godwin-Austen (1920) indicated that nine specimens with the catalogue number ‘ Type No. 1682 B. M. ’ were examined. The species description included one set of measurements and an illustration of one shell. The NHMUK type collections contain a lot of nine specimens from the Woodthorpe collection with a label in Godwin-Austen’s handwriting stating ‘ Type’. The measurements of the specimen with red wool inside the shell are close to the measurements given in the original description. It likely corresponds to the illustration of the species provided in the original description and it herein figured (Fig. 11 C View Figure 11 ) along with other shells (Fig. 11 D, E View Figure 11 ) from the same syntype lot.

Godwin-Austen separately mentioned (1920: 58) another bleached specimen lot NHMUK 1903.7. 1.3655 (2 shells) from Thailand. However, this specimen lot does not form part of the type series of this species.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Subulinidae

Genus

Glessula

Loc

Glessula woodthorpei Godwin-Austen, 1920

Man, Nem Sian, Ablett, Jonathan D., Lwin, Ngwe, Sutcharit, Chirasak & Panha, Somsak 2024
2024
Loc

Glessula woodthorpei

Godwin-Austen HH 1920: 58
1920