1. The family Plectopylidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in Laos with the description of two new genera and a new species.
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Páll-Gergely, Barna, Muratov, Igor V., and Asami, Takahiro
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PULMONATA , *MOLLUSK classification , *GENITALIA , *RADULA , *GEOGRAPHICAL distribution of mollusks - Abstract
Previously only a single plectopylid species, Helix laomontana L. Pfeiffer, 1862 was reported from Laos. Here we erect Naggsia Páll-Gergely & Muratov, gen. n. for H. laomontana based on the description of its reproductive anatomy and radula. Another species, Hunyadiscus saurini Páll-Gergely, gen. & sp. n. is described from Northern Laos based on conchological data. Helix (Plectopylis) andersoni Blanford, 1869, which is known from the Burmese-Chinese border region, is also classified within Hunyadiscus Páll- Gergely, gen. n. A third species, Gudeodiscus (Gudeodiscus) messageri raheemi Páll-Gergely & Hunyadi, 2015 is reported from Laos for the first time. The new localities represent the westernmost sites of the genus Gudeodiscus. The reproductive anatomy of the latter species is described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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