Sinoennea moerchiana ( Nevill, 1881 ) Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi & Grego & Sajan & Tripathy & Chen, 2020

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 : 706-709

Sinoennea moerchiana ( Nevill, 1881) , new combination

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Ennea (Huttonella) moerchiana Nevill, 1881: 130 .

Ennea (Huttonella) moerchiana — Kobelt, 1904b: 139.

Ennea (Huttonella) moerchiana — W.T. Blanford & Godwin- Austen, 1908: 24, fig. 15.

Gulella moerchiana — Richardson, 1988: 106.

Gulella (Huttonella) moerchiana — Ramakrishna et al., 2010: 194.

Type locality. “ Centre of Great Nicobar ” .

Material examined. Holotype ( NZSI M.16940/2), Nicobar, coll. F.A. Do (sic) Roepstorff.

Remarks. Parietal callus strong, does not reach half of the preceding whorl. Parietal lamella strong, elevated, outer portion strongly bent towards columella, inner portion weaker, thinner, bent in palatal direction; palatal wall with a short upper palatal tooth that is situated on the peristome. Lower palatal tooth longer, oblique, situated lower and deeper than the upper palatal tooth, the two palatal teeth are connected. Columellar lamella blade-like, sharp, oblique, its outer/lower end widened, triangular. The ovoid shell shape, the regularly ribbed shell surface, and the arrangement of the apertural barriers places this species unquestionably to Sinoennea .

The original description was based on a single shell (holotype).

Figures

Fig. 17. Holotype (NZSI M.16940/2) of Sinoennea moerchiana (Nevill, 1881).