A new species of Miraphaedusa Nordsieck, 2005 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Clausiliidae) from Guizhou, China

By

Chen, Zhongguang
Dai, Yu-Ting
Li, Yi-Jun
Jiang, Jiao
Wu, Xiaoping
Fang, Yi-Feng
Ouyang, Shan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-10-3

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

13

Pages

1--8

Subjects

clausiliids , conchology , land snail , Phaedusinae , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e165827

 

Abstract

The genus Miraphaedusa Nordsieck, 2005 is a group of medium to large clausiliid land snails endemic to Guangxi and Guizhou Provinces of China and consists of three species. It is characterised by a slender to fusiform shell with thick apical part, strongly doubled peristome and several short palatal plicae.<br> A new species, Miraphaedusa xihuashida Chen sp. nov., is described from Tongren, Guizhou, China. It is characterised by the fusiform shell with 10.5–12.25 whorls and 24.7–27.5 mm shell height, thick, expanded, reflexed and strongly doubled peristome, weak inferior and subcolumellar lamella and short, lateral palatal plicae.