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Plectostoma pulchellum (Godwin-Austen, 1890)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Architaenioglossa »  family Diplommatinidae »  genus Plectostoma

Scientific synonyms

Opisthostoma pulchellum H.H. Godwin-Austen, 1890

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Plectostoma pulchellum

Author: Vermeulen, J.J.

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Description

Spire conical with flat to distinctly convex sides. Apex slightly oblique or not. Whorls 5 3/4-6 7/8, convex; last whorl rounded. Constriction with a parietalis, a longitudinal and a transverse palatalis, a distinct columellaris which continues as a ridge-shaped transverse basalis or not. Tuba gradually to rather abruptly narrowed towards the constriction, rounded below. Radial ribs on the spire rather closely placed to widely spaced (1-7 ribs/0.5 mm on the penultimate whorl), sinuous, often with a shallowly concave projection half-way, abrading to a (slightly) sinuous scar, those on the tuba moderately to widely spaced (2-3 ribs/0.5 mm half-way), below with a shallowly concave projection, abrading to a not or slightly sinuous scar. Spiral striation absent. Umbilicus open, 0.15-0.25 mm across. Aperture tilted up to 30° with regard to the coiling axis, circular. Peristome double; outer peristome (widely) spreading beyond the inner, but rather abruptly narrowed towards, and absent along the right side of the aperture, with a distinct, widely rounded to obtuse wing along the upper side, and usually a similar but less conspicuous wing along the lower side; inner peristome hardly to distinctly protruding from the outer, spreading. Spire: height 2.4-3.5 mm; width 1.6-2.2 mm; index 1.4-1.6. Total width 3.0-4.0 mm. Height and width aperture 0.7-1.0 mm.
Distribution. — Borneo: Sarawak, 4th Div., G. Mulu Nat. Park.
Vermeulen, J.J., 1994. Notes on the non-marine molluscs of the island of Borneo 6. The genus Opisthostoma (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Diplommatinidae), part 2

Interchangeable taxa

1. Shows variability in the size of the shells, the shape of the spire (its sides varying from straight to distinctly convex because of a tightly coiled last whorl), the size of the tuba (short in some specimens, long and prominent in others), and the presence or absence of a basalis.
2. Similar to 0. dipterum, see the notes under that species.
Vermeulen, J.J., 1994. Notes on the non-marine molluscs of the island of Borneo 6. The genus Opisthostoma (Gastropoda Prosobranchia: Diplommatinidae), part 2
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Opisthostoma pulchellum Godwin-Austen, 1890]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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