Subfamily Platyrhaphidinae Páll-Gergely subfam. nov.

(Fig. 13A, B)

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Tope genus: Platorhaphe Möllendorff, 1890 .

Content: Platorhaphe Möllendorff, 1890 (Fig. 13A, B), currently contains 76 species (MolluscaBase 2024).

Diagnosis: Inner tube present (not visible along the suture externally), situated above the suture and with a single opening, microtunnels short (start near the suture).

Distribution: South-eastern China, Taiwan, Okinawa (Japan), the Philippines, Malaysian part of Borneo, Sulawesi, Maluku and North Maluku, Indochina Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia, Tailand, Laos, Vietnam) (Fig. 11).

Remarks: Te genitive of rhaphe is rhaphidis, hence the stem of the genus Platorhaphe is ‘Platyrhaphid-’. Te family-group name will thus be Platyrhaphidinae (Philippe Bouchet, pers. comm., September 2019).