Affiliations 

  • 1 Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand ; Biological Sciences Program, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
  • 2 Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
  • 3 Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
  • 4 Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP, United Kingdom
Zookeys, 2014.
PMID: 24843260 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.401.7075

Abstract

Twelve new species of the streptaxid snail genus Discartemon Pfeiffer, 1856 are described from southern Thailand and western Malaysia, D. afthonodontia sp. n., D. circulus sp. n., D. deprima sp. n., D. discadentus sp. n., D. discamaximus sp. n., D. expandus sp. n., D. flavacandida sp. n., D. kotanensis sp. n., and D. megalostraka sp. n. from southern Thailand, as well as D. conicus sp. n., D. epipedis sp. n. and D. triancus sp. n. from western Malaysia. All 15 previously described species are revised and commented upon based on examined material. Streptaxis paradiscus Möllendorff, 1900 is considered a junior subjective synonym of the type species D. discus (Pfeiffer, 1853). Details of the genital anatomy of twelve species, and the radula and pallial system, are provided for the first time. An identification key is provided.

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