Macrochlamys Gray, 1847

Pholyotha, Arthit, Sutcharit, Chirasak & Panha, Somsak, 2018, The land snail genus Macrochlamys Gray, 1847 from Thailand, with descriptions of five new species (Pulmonata: Ariophantidae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66, pp. 763-781 : 764-765

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5460634

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Macrochlamys Gray, 1847
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Genus Macrochlamys Gray, 1847 View in CoL

Macrochlamys Gray, 1847: 169 View in CoL – Benson, 1832: 13, 76 [unavailable]; Benson, 1836: 350, 351 [unavailable]; Stoliczka, 1871: 246; Godwin-Austen, 1883: 76–84; Blanford & Godwin-Austen, 1908: 77–79; Zilch, 1959: 323; Thiele, 1931: 628; Schileyko, 2003: 1322.

Tanychlamys Benson, 1834: 89 View in CoL [unavailable] – Stoliczka, 1871: 247.

Orobia Albers, 1860: 57 View in CoL .

Type species. Helix vitrinoides Deshayes, 1831 , by monotypy.

Diagnostic description. Shell small to large, dextral, depressed to semi-globose, thin, translucent, surface smooth and shiny, with 4–6 whorls. Last whorl rounded to slightly shouldered. Aperture lunate and normally with simple lip. Columellar margin slightly reflected near umbilicus. Umbilicus open or minutely open.

Genitalia with spirally coiled epiphallic caecum to which retractor muscle is attached. Flagellum, gametolytic organ, dart apparatus with retractor muscle and penial verge well developed. Animal with well-developed mantle edge with two shell-lobes and three dorsal-lobes ( Fig. 1 View Fig ). Body colour variable, from black or grey to colourful orange or yellow ( Fig. 2 View Fig ). Sole tripartite, caudal foss and caudal horn present.

Radula with symmetric tricuspid central tooth, asymmetric tricuspid lateral teeth and bicuspid marginal teeth.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Ariophantidae

Loc

Macrochlamys Gray, 1847

Pholyotha, Arthit, Sutcharit, Chirasak & Panha, Somsak 2018
2018
Loc

Orobia

Albers JC 1860: 57
1860
Loc

Macrochlamys

Schileyko AA 2003: 1322
Zilch A 1959: 323
Thiele J 1931: 628
Blanford WT & Godwin-Austen HH 1908: 77
Godwin-Austen HH 1883: 76
Stoliczka F 1871: 246
Gray JE 1847: 169
Benson WH 1836: 350
Benson WH 1832: 13
1847
Loc

Tanychlamys

Stoliczka F 1871: 247
Benson WH 1834: 89
1834
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