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| Theobaldius? konkanensis Bhosale, Thackeray, Yadav, Khandekar, White & Raheem, 2025 |
ABSTRACT
We describe a new species of cyclophorid land snail, Theobaldius? konkanensis n. sp., from the coastal and lower elevational region of the northern Western Ghats in Maharashtra, India. Theobaldius? konkanensis n. sp. can be differentiated from other species of Theobaldius Nevill, 1878 by the combination of a conoidally depressed shell with a more elevated spire, a deep notch on the apertural margin overhung by a prominent raised fold, and an operculum with the edges of the whorls conspicuously raised and bearing short spines. We provide a detailed description of the new species, focusing on the shell, operculum, jaw and radula, and the external morphology of the living animal; we map its distribution using recently collected data, and compare it with other species of Theobalidus and other cyclophoroidean genera.
KEYWORDS: Konkan, northern Western Ghats, operculum, taxonomy, Theobaldius?
Theobaldius? konkanensis n. sp.
Amrut Bhosale, Tejas Thackeray, Omkar Yadav, Akshay Khandekar, Tom S. White and Dinarzarde C. Raheem. 2025. A New Species of cyclophorid land snail (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae) from the coastal regions of Maharashtra, India. Molluscan Research. 45(2); 157-169. DOI: doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2025.2462864 [11 Mar 2025]
