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| Endothyrella prembudhai Páll-Gergely & Grego, 2022 |
A new species of Plectopylidae, Endothyrella prembudhai n. sp. is described from the Tinjura Dara mountain range in eastern Nepal. The new species is known from the holotype only, but its conchological characters clearly differ from all congeners reported from Nepal and Bhutan. A new locality of Endothyrella nepalica Budha & Páll-Gergely, 2015 is also published.
Key words: Taxonomy, systematics, shell, Himalaya
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| Holotype of Endothyrella prembudhai Páll-Gergely & Grego, n. sp. (SMF 366181). |
Systematics
PLECTOPYLIDAE Möllendorff, 1898
SINICOLINAE Páll-Gergely, 2018
Genus Endothyrella Zilch, 1960
Endothyrella prembudhai n. sp.
Diagnosis A small (SW=6.9mm) Endothyrella species with very slightly elevated spire, domed dorsal side, rounded body whorl and four rows of hairs.
Derivation of name: This species is dedicated to Dr Prem Budha, an outstanding Nepalese malacologist, who published the most up to date checklist of Nepalese land snails (Budha et al.2015).
Barna Páll-Gergely and Jozef Grego. 2022. A New Species of Endothyrella Zilch, 1960 from Nepal (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Plectopylidae). Journal of Conchology. 44(4): 343–347
