Diancta taviensis (Liardet, 1876) Liardet, 1876

Neubert, Eike & Bouchet, Philippe, 2015, The Diplommatinidae of Fiji - a hotspot of Pacific land snail biodiversity (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoroidea), ZooKeys 487, pp. 1-85 : 10

Taxon classification Animalia Mesogastropoda Diplommatinidae

Diancta taviensis (Liardet, 1876) comb. n. Fig. 123

Diplommatina taviensis Liardet 1876, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1876: 101, pl. V fig. 9 (on the figure caption, the specific epithet is erroneously spelled taviuviensis ). Type locality: Taviuni [= Taveuni Island, Fiji].

Type material.

Not in NHMUK.

Material.

No specimen available.

Description

(original). "Shell with the penultimate whorl contracted in front, leaving the previous one and lip of the aperture joining regularly costated; lip double; aperture circular and entire. Animal with two tentacles, short and cylindrical, with an active arched motion, as in Helicina . Eyes situated at the base of tentacles inside [Hab. Taviuni, Fiji]."

Remarks.

No specimen is available, but no collecting was done in Taveuni. This taxon was overlooked by Kobelt (1902). The original illustration is of a shell with an aperture shifted to the left of the shell axis, which indicates a generic placement in Diancta rather than Moussonia or Palaina .