Diapherid Snails are
small terrestrial Snails found in India, China, Japan, South Korea,
Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam.
There are about 100 species, which can be cylindrical, ovoid or hire
spired, and are split into two genera, Diaphera, in which the
final whorl is partially detached, and Sinoennea in which it
is fully attached.
In a paper published in
the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology on 23 October 2015 Do Duc Sang of the
Department of Zoology at Tay Bac University and Do Van Nhuong of the
Faculty of Biology at Hanoi National University of Education,
describe a new species of Sinoennea from
Son La Province in northwestern Vietnam.
The
new species is named Sinoennea copiaensis,
meaning 'from Copia' in reference to the Copia Natural Reserve where
the species was first collected, though it was subsequently
discovered on limestone karst outcrops at a number of locations
across the province. The collected shells of the species are 11.0 to
14.6 mm in height, cylindrical with regular ribs and pearly white in
colour.
Sinoennea
copiaensis: (A) Apertural view;
(B) and (D) side view; (C) dorsal view; (E) close up view of the
aperture. Abbreviations: P, parietal tooth; pC, plate-like tooth; b,
basal tooth. Do & Do (2015).
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