Pupopsis paraplesia Sturany, 1900

Wu, Min & Gao, Linhui, 2010, A review of the genus Pupopsis Gredler, 1898 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Enidae), with the descriptions of eight new species from China, Zootaxa 2725, pp. 1-27 : 4

2. Pupopsis paraplesia Sturany, 1900

Fig. 1 B; Table 2

Pupopsis paraplesia Sturany, 1900: 36 , pl. 2, figs. 22–24.

Buliminus (Pupopsis) paraplesius— Möllendorff, 1901: 375; Kobelt, 1902: 875, pl. 108, figs. 5, 6.

Type material. Whereabouts of the type material unknown.

Type locality. Shy-pa (rocks of the left bank of the river Pei-shui-kiang in the Tsin-ling mountains, in the neighbourhood of the village Shy-pa, South Gansu), Gansu.

Material examined. None.

Distribution. Gansu (only known from the type locality, currently unrecognized).

Description of shell (after Sturany 1900: 36, pl. 2, figs. 22–24). Shell barrel-shaped, of light-brown colour; with eight whorls which are little convex, separated by a distinct suture and, except for the embryonic whorls, delicately striated. The circular or oval aperture has a thick, broad margin, a callus on the parietal wall and an angular tubercle on the latter which is separated from the outer wall by a narrow, short channel. The dentition consists of a tubercular, deeply recessed fold on the parietal wall, a strong, medially situated palatal fold which can be traced as a light-coloured line on the outside through the entire body whorl, and a strong columellar fold. Umbilicus a narrow perforation covered by the reflected columellar margin. Height 10.5–10.7, diam. maj. 4.5–4.7.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Distribution map of the genus Pupopsis. Red dot, Pupopsis dissociabilis (Sturany, 1900); blue dot, P. retrodens (Martens, 1879); blue square, P. maoxian sp. nov.; red square, P. rhodostoma sp. nov.; green dot, P. subpupopsis sp. nov.; green square, P. yengiawat sp. nov. Two grey dots each with two or five species as indicated in the boxes on the map. The species P. paraplesius (Sturany, 1900), P. polystreptus (Sturany, 1900) and P. zilchi sp. nov. are not mapped due to no precise locality information available.