Pseudopomatias Moellendorff , 1885

Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Sutcharit, Chirasak & Panha, Somsak, 2022, Annotated checklist of the operculated land snails from Thailand (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda): the family Pupinidae, with descriptions of several new species and subspecies, and notes on classification of Pupina Vignard, 1829 and Pupinella Gray, 1850 from mainland Southeast Asia, ZooKeys 1119, pp. 1-115 : 1

3. Genus Pseudopomatias Moellendorff, 1885

Pseudopomatias Möllendorff, 1885: 164. Kobelt 1902: 272. Egorov 2013: 12.

Type species.

Pseudopomatias amoenus Möllendorff, 1885, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Shell turriform or spindle-shaped, rather regularly ribbed, without additional groove above the suture, and without basal keel. Aperture rather round with slight columellar-parietal and more angled parietal-palatal transitions.

Differential diagnosis.

Pseudopomatias is similar to Hedleya Cox, 1892, Nodopomatias Gude, 1921, Vargapupa Páll-Gergely, 2015 and Csomapupa Páll-Gergely, 2015 in shell shape and ribbing, but different from Hedleya by an absence of two canals in the aperture, different from Nodopomatias and Vargapupa by an absence of a basal keel, and different from Csomapupa by the lack of an additional line (groove) above the suture ( Páll-Gergely et al. 2015).

Remarks.

The taxonomic history of Pseudopomatias was reviewed and its systematic position in the family Pupinidae was confirmed by Páll-Gergely et al. (2015). The distribution of all Pseudopomatias species in Thailand is provided in Fig. 7 .

Figures

Figure 7. Map of northern Thailand showing the distribution of Pollicaria mouhoti mouhoti (filled circle), Pollicaria mouhoti monochroma (open circle), Pseudopomatias caligosus (square), Pseudopomatias doiangkhangensis sp. nov. (hexagon), Pseudopomatias pallgergelyi sp. nov. (triangle), Pupinella mansuyi (cross), and Rhaphaulus tonkinensis (star). Each red symbol indicates the type locality of its respective taxon. The red filled circle denotes the type locality of Pollicaria nicoarlingi.