A new species of Carychium O.F. Müller, 1773 from Pakistan (Gastropoda: Carychiidae)

ABSTRACT

A new species of land snail, Carychium jochumae n. sp., is described from northern Pakistan, representing a new country record for the genus. The new species is compared to the nominal species occurring on the Indian subcontinent: Carychium indicum Benson, 1849, C. boysianum Benson, 1864, C. khasiacum Godwin-Austen, 1876, and C. parietidentatum (Das & Aravind, 2021), which are briefly discussed.

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KEYWORDS:

• Carychium jochumae
• India
• land snail
• taxonomy

Acknowledgements

We thank John Slapcinsky, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, for access to specimens; the Zoological Survey of Pakistan, Karachi, particularly Shamin Fakhri, Hafiz Rehman, and Aleem Khan, for providing every aspect of logistical support; and Fred Naggs, formerly of the Natural History Museum, London, Philippe Bouchet, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, and Harry G. Lee of Jacksonville, Florida, for discussions and support. Finally, we thank Adrienne Jochum for providing support and invaluable information and literature on the Carychiidae of southern and Central Asia.

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Funding

The Pakistan non-marine mollusc surveys were funded with the support of the Division of International Conservation, US Fish and Wildlife Service, to the late Walter Auffenberg (Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida) and the Thomas LaDue McGinty Fund, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Foundation. This study was also partially supported by the Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and grants from the SYNTHESYS Project (GB-TAF-2523) and the Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA FK 135262) to BPG.