Pupopsis polystrepta Sturany, 1900

Wu, Min & Gao, Linhui, 2010, A review of the genus Pupopsis Gredler, 1898 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Enidae), with the descriptions of eight new species from China, Zootaxa 2725, pp. 1-27 : 5-6

3. Pupopsis polystrepta Sturany, 1900

Fig. 1 C; Table 2

Pupopsis polystrepta Sturany, 1900: 36 , pl. 2, figs. 7–9.

Buliminus (Pupopsis) polystreptus— Möllendorff, 1901: 375; Kobelt, 1902: 876, pl. 108, figs. 7, 8.

Type material. Whereabouts of the type material unknown.

Type locality. Shy-pa (rocks of the left bank of the river Pei-shui-kiang in the Tsin-ling mountains, in the neighbourhood of the village Shy-pa, South Gansu), Gansu

Material examined. None.

Distribution. Gansu (only known from the type locality, currently unrecognized).

Description of shell (after Sturany 1900: 36, pl. 2, figs. 7–9). Shell yellowish-white, barrel-shaped, with 9 whorls which are, except for the embryonic whorls, finely striated. Aperture ear-shaped, with a broad margin and thick lip. Insertions connected by a parietal callus with an angular tubercle on the right, which is separated from the right margin by a small channel. Right below the angular tubercle is a thick palatal fold reaching inward. There is a thick, horizontal columellar fold and a heavy palatal fold which can be traced as a white line on the outside through the body whorl. The umbilicus is a perforation over which the columellar margin is expanded in a distance of about 1 mm. Height 8, diam. maj. 3.5.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Distribution map of the genus Pupopsis. Red dot, Pupopsis dissociabilis (Sturany, 1900); blue dot, P. retrodens (Martens, 1879); blue square, P. maoxian sp. nov.; red square, P. rhodostoma sp. nov.; green dot, P. subpupopsis sp. nov.; green square, P. yengiawat sp. nov. Two grey dots each with two or five species as indicated in the boxes on the map. The species P. paraplesius (Sturany, 1900), P. polystreptus (Sturany, 1900) and P. zilchi sp. nov. are not mapped due to no precise locality information available.