Plectopylinae Möllendorff, 1898

Páll-Gergely, Barna, 2018, Systematic revision of the Plectopylinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 455, pp. 1-114 : 9

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.455

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3818772

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scientific name

Plectopylinae Möllendorff, 1898
status

 

Subfamily Plectopylinae Möllendorff, 1898 View in CoL

Type genus

Plectopylis Benson, 1860 View in CoL .

Included genera

Chersaecia Gude, 1899 View in CoL (synonym: Endoplon Gude, 1899), Hunyadiscus Páll-Gergely, 2016 View in CoL , Naggsia Páll-Gergely & Muratov, 2016 View in CoL , Plectopylis Benson, 1860 View in CoL .

Diagnosis

Shell usually sinistral, flat to depressed conical; umbilicus wide to moderately wide; protoconch with variable sculptural elements (finely granulated, spirally striated, irregularly wrinkled/ribbed); apertural fold usually present, main plica usually present. Penis well-developed or reduced; penial caecum absent or small, epiphallus present or absent; diverticulum usually present, shorter than bursa copulatrix.

Distribution

Southeastern Himalaya (Nagaland and Manipur in northeastern India), Myanmar and the neighbouring Chinese border region (Yunnan Province), Thailand (with the exception of the lowlands in the central and northeastern regions), northern Laos ( Fig. 3 View Fig ).

Benson W. H. 1860. Notes on Plectopylis, a group a Helicidae distinguished by several internal plicate Ephiphragms; with the Characters of a new Species. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 (5): 243 - 247. Available from https: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 18658580 [accessed 30 Jul. 2018].

Mollendorff O. F. von 1898. Verzeichniss der auf den Philippinen lebenden Landmollusken. Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Gorlitz 22: 25 - 208.

Pall-Gergely B., Muratov I. V. & Asami T. 2016. The family Plectopylidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Laos with the description of two new genera and a new species. ZooKeys 592: 1 - 26. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 592.8118

Gallery Image

Fig. 3. Distribution of the extant Sinicolinae subfam. nov. (ruled area) and Plectopylinae Möllendorff, 1898 (grey shaded area). Mainly after Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi (2013) and Páll-Gergely et al. (2015b, 2015c, 2016).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

SuperFamily

Plectopyloidea

Family

Plectopylidae