Glessula perlevis Godwin-Austen, 1920

Man, Nem Sian, Ablett, Jonathan D., Lwin, Ngwe, Sutcharit, Chirasak & Panha, Somsak, 2024, Contributions on a small collection of the former Subulinidae Fischer & Crosse, 1877 (Eupulmonata, Achatinoidea) with catalogue of the Glessula and Rishetia species recorded from Myanmar, ZooKeys 1208, pp. 173-239 : 173-239

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1208.116083

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0215503D-E8B4-4179-89F6-FB2CCC59F37E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13137122

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Glessula perlevis Godwin-Austen, 1920
status

 

17 Glessula perlevis Godwin-Austen, 1920

Fig. 10 D, E View Figure 10

Glessula perlevis Godwin-Austen, 1920: 59. Type locality: Shan Hills [Shan State, Myanmar]. View in CoL

Type specimens.

Syntypes NHMUK 1906.5. 5.89 [re-registered in error as 1986023] (5 shells; Fig. 10 D, E View Figure 10 ) ex. Godwin-Austen collection from Shan Hills, Burma.

Diagnosis.

Shell oblong ovate and regularly attenuated; spire high conical; apex rounded and blunt; subsequent whorls nearly smooth with very weak growth lines, and somewhat strong irregularly spaced ridges near suture. Suture impressed and whorls slightly convex. Aperture ovate; columella concave and truncated.

Distribution.

This species is known only from the type locality in the Shan Hills near Mandalay. The type locality noted by Godwin-Austen seems ambiguous because it was described as ‘ probably comes from the Shan State near Mandalay collected by Fedden’ ( Godwin-Austen, 1920: 59).

Remarks.

Godwin-Austen (1920) described this species based on five specimens in the Blanford collection. The species description included one set of shell measurements, the number of specimens examined and the W. T. Blanford catalogue number ‘ Type No. 89.06.5.5 ’ ( NHMUK 1906.5. 5.89), and there was no illustration of the shell. The NHMUK collections contain a type specimen lot consisting of five shells (2 matures + 3 immatures) with an original label stating ‘ Types’. The mature shells correspond well with the shell dimensions given in the original description and are illustrated herein for the first time.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SuperOrder

Eupulmonata

Order

Stylommatophora

SuperFamily

Achatinoidea

Family

Subulinidae

Genus

Glessula

Loc

Glessula perlevis Godwin-Austen, 1920

Man, Nem Sian, Ablett, Jonathan D., Lwin, Ngwe, Sutcharit, Chirasak & Panha, Somsak 2024
2024
Loc

Glessula perlevis

Godwin-Austen HH 1920: 59
1920