Diplommatina (Sinica) paxillus paxillus ( Gredler, 1881 )

Diplommatina (Sinica) paxillus paxillus ( Gredler, 1881) View in CoL

Moussonia paxillus Gredler, 1881: 29–31, pl. 1, fig. 7. View in CoL

Diplommatina (Sinica) paxillus View in CoL – Schmacker & Boettger, 1890: 121; Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898: 141; Kobelt, 1902: 469; Zilch, 1953: 34.

Diplommatina paxillus paxillus View in CoL – Yen, 1939: 31, pl. 2, fig. 46.

Type material.

Seven syntypes SMF 39629 (Figs 6 F View Figure 6 , 12 Q View Figure 12 ). Two syntypes FMB 142.

Type locality.

“ Yün-tscheu-fu ” [Hunan Province]; the current name of the locality cannot be confirmed.

Brief description.

Shell dextral, with about 7 whorls. Protoconch smooth. Penultimate whorl wider than body whorl. Constriction at middle of parietal wall. Teleoconch with weak, dense, radial ribs; ca. 10 ribs per 0.5 mm on penultimate whorl, ca. 7 ribs per 0.5 mm on body whorl. Dorsal fold absent. Umbilicus unknown. Double lip present. Columellar tooth present. One strong horizontal palatalis just above columella. One short vertical palatalis.

Remarks.

Yen (1939) listed ‘ paratypes’ in the SMF and figured one; referred to as ‘ cotypes’ by Zilch (1953). Two type specimens are kept in the Gredler collection in the Franziskanermuseum Bozen (see Zilch (1974)). Kobelt and Möllendorff (1898) assigned this species to the subgenus Sinica .