Diplommatina pachycheilus Benson, 1857

Budha, Prem B., Naggs, Fred & Backeljau, Thierry, 2017, The genus Diplommatina Benson, 1849 (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Diplommatinidae) in Nepal, with the description of seven new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 337, pp. 1-30 : 16-17

Diplommatina pachycheilus Benson, 1857

Fig. 6

Diplommatina pachycheilus Benson, 1857: 203 .

Diplommatina pachycheilus – Pfeiffer 1860: 143, pl. 37, figs 16–18. — Godwin-Austen 1868: 83, pl. 1, fig. 5. — Theobald 1876: 42. — Nevill 1878: 287.

Diplommatina pachycheila – Hanley & Theobald 1876: pl. 140, figs 5–6.

Diplommatina (Diplommatina) pachychilus – Kobelt 1902: 440.

Diplommatina pachychilus – Gude 1921: 327. — Kuznetsov & Schileyko 1997: 140. — Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 90. — Budha et al. 2015: 7.

Remarks

The original spelling of the name is ‘ pachycheilus ’. However, Kobelt (1902), Gude (1921), Kuznetsov & Schileyko (1997), Ramakrishna et al. (2010) and Budha et al. (2015) spell it as ‘ pachychilus ’. This is an unjustified emendation and the original spelling is restored here. This species was reported from Nepal by Kuznetsov & Schileyko (1997), but it has been excluded from the identification key because Nepalese material was not available to examine internal lamellae. The Shivapuri-Nagarjun National Park was reported as a new distributional record for this species in Nepal by Budha et al. (2015). However, these records in fact refer to a new species described here, viz. D. fistulata sp. nov.

Figures

Fig. 6. Diplommatina pachycheilus Benson, 1857, specimen from Darjiling (one shell among five possible syntypes), [Teste H. Blanford] (UMZC I.102595, NHM). Image reproduced from Raheem et al. 2010)