Hemiplecta (?) scrobiculata scrobiculata ( Gredler, 1885 ), 1850

Páll-Gergely, Barna, Hunyadi, András, Chen, Zhe-Yu & Lyu, Zhi-Tong, 2019, A review of the genus Coccoglypta Pilsbry, 1895 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Camaenidae), Zoosystema 41 (29), pp. 595-608 : 604-606

Hemiplecta (?) scrobiculata scrobiculata ( Gredler, 1885)

( Fig. 7E-I )

Zonites scrobiculatus Gredler, 1885: 220-221 , pl. 6, fig. 2. — Bachmann & Gredler 1894: 416.

Coccoglypta scrobiculata scrobiculata – Yen 1939: 153, pl. 15, fig. 62.

Coccoglypta scrobiculata – Chen & Zhang 2004: 370, fig. 368 (treating hupeina as a junior synonym).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — China. Hunan, Heng-san-hsien, coll. O. v. Möllendorff, SMF 42575/3 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — “ Hen-san, im Districte von Hen-kiou-fu in Hunan ”.

DESCRIPTION

Shell dextral, medium-sized, dark yellowish-slightly greenish on both ventral and dorsal sides; shell depressed globularconical with a rounded body whorl; entire shell consisting of 4.75-5 whorls, separated by rather shallow suture; protoconch consisting of 1.75-2 whorls, very finely mamillated with recognisable spiral striation; dorsal side of teleoconch dominated by irregular, wavy ribs (waviness seemingly caused by spiral lines occurring only at back of ribs); area between middle line of body whorl (from apertural view) and ventral side (except for umbilicus region) glossy, with much weaker sculpture than on dorsal side or inside umbilicus; aperture oblique to shell axis, whitish in one specimen, but yellow in the other two; peristome not expanded; parietal callus weak, only indicated by fine whitish calcareous transparent layer; umbilicus open, rather narrow, deep, showing all whorls.

Measurements

D = 18.4-19.9 mm, H = 10.7-12.0 mm (n = 3). REMARKS

Zilch (1974) found a single syntype in Bolzano in Gredler’s collection.

Figures

FIG. 7. — Shells of “Hemiplecta” species:A-D, Hemiplecta scrobiculata hupeiana (Gredler, 1887) (syntype,SMF 44672);E-I, Hemiplecta scrobiculata scrobiculata (Gredler, 1885), SMF 42575; J-H, Hemiplecta laotica (Möllendorff, 1899) (holotype, SMF 226681). Scale bars: 10 mm; I-J not to scale.