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Issue: Vol. 4057 No. 4: 14 Dec. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.4.3
Page range: 511–538
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 2

Systematic review of diplommatinid land snails (Caenogastropoda, Diplommatinidae) endemic to the Palau Islands. (3) Description of eight new species and two new subspecies of Hungerfordia

Institute of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo. 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo,113-0033 Japan
Institute of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo. 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo,113-0033 Japan
Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, New York 13210 USA
Institute of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo. 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo,113-0033 Japan
Mollusca Pacific islands speciation biodiversity shell morphology taxonomy

Abstract

Hungerfordia Beddome, 1889 is a land snail genus of the family Diplommatinidae, which shows extensive endemic radiation in the Palau (Belau) islands. Although 42 species or subspecies of the genus have been named to date, many species remain to be described. In this article, we describe ten new taxa of the genus: H. goniobasis exserta subsp. nov., H. ngereamensis sp. nov., H. spiroperculata sp. nov., H. fragilipennis sp. nov., H. brachyptera sp. nov., H. elegantissima anomphala subsp. nov., H. nodulosa sp. nov., H. irregularis sp. nov., H. chilorhytis sp. nov., H. globosa sp. nov.