Tuesday, November 5, 2024

[Mollusca • 2024] Landouria bella & L. monodon • Two New Species of Landouria Godwin-Austen, 1918 (Gastropoda: Camaenidae) from Thailand, with A Key to Thai Species


Landouria bella
Nahok, Chanlabut, S. Tumpeesuwan & C. Tumpeesuwan, 2024 

 
Abstract
The present work contains descriptions of two new species of Landouria and a key to Thai species of this genus. Landouria bella sp. nov. is described from isolated limestone hills in Ratchaburi and Phetchaburi provinces, western Thailand. This new species is characterized by its small depressed-globose shell without a peripheral keel, the presence of a small, thin lamella on the columellar side of the inner aperture, a long, cylindrical distally bent flagellum, a short penis with a rounded verge, and a short, thick free oviduct and vagina. The second new species, Landouria monodon sp. nov. is described from sandstone hills in Kalasin Province, northeastern Thailand. This species has a depressed-conic shell with a blunt peripheral keel, a thick prominent lamella on the columellar side of the inner aperture, a short, finger-shaped, distally bent flagellum, and a long penis with a small, short verge.
 
Key words: Aegistini, Bradybaeninae, radula, reproductive anatomy, shell morphology

Landouria bella sp. nov. A holotype (NHMSU-00056) B paratype (ZCPRU-0042) C, D empty shell from Khao Nang Panthurat Forest Park, Phetchaburi Province (NHMSU-00058).


Benchawan Nahok, Utain Chanlabut, Sakboworn Tumpeesuwan and Chanidaporn Tumpeesuwan. 2024. Two New Species of Landouria Godwin-Austen, 1918 (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) from Thailand, with A Key to Thai Species. ZooKeys. 1208: 347-362. DOI: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1208.117056