Plectopylinae Möllendorff, 1898

Páll-Gergely, Barna, 2018, Systematic revision of the Plectopylinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 455, pp. 1-114 : 9

Subfamily Plectopylinae Möllendorff, 1898

Type genus

Plectopylis Benson, 1860 .

Included genera

Chersaecia Gude, 1899 (synonym: Endoplon Gude, 1899), Hunyadiscus Páll-Gergely, 2016 , Naggsia Páll-Gergely & Muratov, 2016 , Plectopylis Benson, 1860 .

Diagnosis

Shell usually sinistral, flat to depressed conical; umbilicus wide to moderately wide; protoconch with variable sculptural elements (finely granulated, spirally striated, irregularly wrinkled/ribbed); apertural fold usually present, main plica usually present. Penis well-developed or reduced; penial caecum absent or small, epiphallus present or absent; diverticulum usually present, shorter than bursa copulatrix.

Distribution

Southeastern Himalaya (Nagaland and Manipur in northeastern India), Myanmar and the neighbouring Chinese border region (Yunnan Province), Thailand (with the exception of the lowlands in the central and northeastern regions), northern Laos ( Fig. 3 ).

Figures

Fig. 3. Distribution of the extant Sinicolinae subfam. nov. (ruled area) and Plectopylinae Möllendorff, 1898 (grey shaded area). Mainly after Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi (2013) and Páll-Gergely et al. (2015b, 2015c, 2016).