Dentichloritis, Pall-Gergely, Barna & Neubert, Eike, 2019

Pall-Gergely, Barna & Neubert, Eike, 2019, New insights in Trichochloritis Pilsbry, 1891 and its relatives (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Camaenidae), ZooKeys 865, pp. 137-154 : 144

Genus Dentichloritis gen. nov.

Trichochloritis : Schileyko, 2007: 2113-2114, fig. 2032 a–c (partim).

Type species.

Helix brevidens Sowerby I, 1841: 25 (Puerto Galero, Philippines).

Diagnosis.

Shell depressed globular, apex not sunken, hairs or hair scars cover the entire shell, aperture with a basal denticle. Penis very thick-walled, with narrow lumen, internally with very large conic tubercles in main chamber; flagellum and epiphallus absent; vas deferens passes gradually enlarging into penis; retractor muscle inserts at curvature of vas deferens close to its joint with penis; penial sheath thin, surrounds upper two third part of penis; vagina shorter than penis, thick.

Etymology.

The name Dentichloritis refers to the presence of a denticle on the basal peristomal lip and the conchological similarity to Chloritis .

Remarks.

There are seven Trichochloritis species known from the Philippines ( Richardson 1985), and four of them have been photographed by Zilch (1966). They differ from D. brevidens in the open umbilicus and the lack of denticle on the basal lip. Therefore, we retain them in Trichochloritis until ethanol-preserved specimens become available.