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Issue: Vol. 31 No. 2: 28 July 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-07-28
DOI: 10.11646/mr.31.2.2
Page range: 85–89
Abstract views: 63
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A new species of Trochotaia (Caenogastropoda: Viviparidae) from Yunnan, China

State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, 650223.
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, 650223.
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, 650223.
Trochotaia pyramidella Gastropoda Architaenioglossa Bellamyinae anatomy taxonomy freshwater

Abstract

A new species of Viviparidae, Trochotaia pyramidella n. sp., is described from freshwater ponds in the Yousuo village of Er-Yuan County, Yunnan, southwestern China on the basis of shell, radula and anatomical characters. Trochotaia pyramidella is the first report of a species of this genus from China.