Bensonella geminounca Jirapatrasilp & Tongkerd, 2024

Gojšina, Vukašin, Hunyadi, András, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Tongkerd, Piyoros, Auffenberg, Kurt, Grego, Jozef, Vermeulen, Jaap J., Reischütz, Alexander & Páll-Gergely, Barna, 2025, A new start? Revision of the genera Anauchen, Bensonella, Gyliotrachela and Hypselostoma (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Hypselostomatidae) of Southeast Asia with description of 46 new species, ZooKeys 1235, pp. 1-338 : 1-338

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1235.145281
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9177E821-2373-4493-9728-FF540527C42F
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15268872
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scientific name	Bensonella geminounca Jirapatrasilp & Tongkerd, 2024
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Treatment

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Bensonella geminounca Jirapatrasilp & Tongkerd in Jirapatrasilp et al. 2024: 90–91, fig. 2. View in CoL

Type material examined.

Thailand • holotype; 27. May 1997, S. Panha, J. B. Burch, P. Dumrongrojwattana leg.; CUMZ 14366 View Materials .

Type locality.

“ Doi Chiang Dao, Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary, Chiang Dao District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand (19°22′046.3″N, 098°51′08.1″E, 2,015 m a. m. s. l.) ”.

Differential diagnosis.

This species has a unique appearance of the infraparietal lamella which readily distinguishes it from all other congeners: it is consisting of two hooked parts pointing toward each other, outer (pointing inwards) and inner (pointing outwards).

Distribution.

This species is known from different altitudes at the type locality (altitude range: 1650–2015 m).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
SuperOrder	Eupulmonata
Order	Stylommatophora
Family	Hypselostomatidae
Genus	Bensonella