Pincerna bembex (Benson, 1859)

Pall-Gergely, Barna, Sajan, Sheikh, Tripathy, Basudev, Meng, Kaibaryer, Asami, Takahiro & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2020, Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda, Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalogue, ZooKeys 981, pp. 1-220 : 1

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scientific name	Pincerna bembex (Benson, 1859)
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Treatment

Alycaeus bembex Benson, 1859: 178-179.

Alycaeus bembex - Reeve 1878: pl. 5, species 42; Godwin-Austen 1884: pl. 51, fig. 5.

Alycaeus (Alycaeus) bembex - Kobelt 1902: 342.

Alycaeus (Cycloryx) bembex - Godwin-Austen 1914: 346-347, pl. 147, figs 1, 1a; Gude 1921: 275-276.

Cycloryx bembex - Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 70.

Type locality.

"in valle Rungun".

Material examined.

Darjiling, NHMUK 1906.4.4.44 (6 possible syntypes, one of them separated in a different vial and marked with a “T”).

Remarks.

Protoconch rather matte without any notable sculpture; R1 with widely spaced ribs and several, much finer radial lines between the larger ribs; R2 extremely short, with ca. 12 very narrow light stripes, and much thicker darker stripes.

References

Gude, GK, 1921. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Mollusca. III. Land operculates (Cyclophoridae, Truncatellidae, Assimineidae, Helicinidae). Taylor and Francis, London, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12890

Kobelt, W, 1902. Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. In Verbindung mit der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft herausgegeben von der Koeniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Mollusca: Cyclophoridae. R. Friedlaender und Sohn, Berlin, https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1000211

Reeve, LA, 1878. Monograph of the genus Alycaeus. In: Reeve LA (Ed.) Conchologica Iconica: or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals. Reeve and Co., London, 20: 13 pp. [+ 6 pls] https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8230573