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Morphological redescription and neotype designation of Sulcospira paludiformis (Yen, 1939) from Hainan, China

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Pages 66-71 | Received 30 Mar 2016, Published online: 13 Oct 2016
 

ABSTRACT

Semisulcospira paludiformis, collected from Hainan Island, China, was described by Yen in 1939. While the type specimens of S. paludiformis were destroyed in World War II, the systematic classification of this species has remained dubious because of the lack of further study. In 2015 we collected fresh specimens from near the type locality, based on which we have described the morphology and have designated a neotype. The anatomy shows that the species belongs to the genus Sulcospira Troschel, 1858 (family Pachychilidae).

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Acknowledgements

We thank J.H. Lan for collecting these specimens. We greatly thank Meng Kaibayier for generously helping when we checked the specimens at the National Zoological Museum of China, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS). We are also very grateful to Dr R. Janssen, Senckenberg Research Institute Frankfurt, for providing the photos of Sulcospira hainanensis, Sulcospira biconica and Sulcospira ebenina. We are grateful to J. Li and C. Li for taking the photographs of embryonic shells. We are greatly indebted to two anonymous reviewers and to Dr F. Köhler for their constructive comments on the manuscript.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31301865] and Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Y4ZK111B01].

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