Bensonella nordsiecki 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.15268895
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scientific name	Bensonella nordsiecki Jirapatrasilp & Tongkerd, 2024
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Treatment

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Bensonella nordsiecki Jirapatrasilp & Tongkerd in Jirapatrasilp et al. 2024: 91–93, fig. 3. View in CoL

Type material examined.

Thailand • holotype; 27. May 1997, S. Panha, J. B. Burch, P. Dumrongrojwattana leg.; CUMZ 14372 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 is much more ovoid (less slender and triangular) than Bensonella dracula sp. nov. which also has a strong second palatal tubercle (very weak or absent in B. nordsiecki ). The umbilicus is wider in B. dracula sp. nov. See also under B. obex sp. nov.

Distribution.

This species is known only from the type locality, with an altitude range from 605 m to 2015 m.

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