Australocosmica pallida Criscione & Köhler, 2013, n. sp.

• Main Authors: Criscione, Francesco, Köhler, Frank
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Stylommatophora; Camaenidae; Australocosmica; Australocosmica pallida; Bonaparte; Lucas Island; Rotunda
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6153552; https://zenodo.org/record/6153552

Australocosmica pallida n. sp. Figs 3 E, 5 C–D, 7 A Holotype . Australia, WA, Kimberley, Bonaparte Archipelago, Brunswick Bay: Sta. KC- 100, small island SW of Lucas Island, - 15.231, 124.494 (coll. V. Kessner, A. Longbottom, 24 July 1988) (WAM S 84056). Paratypes . Australia, WA, Kimberley, Bonaparte Archipelago, Brunswick Bay: same data as for holotype, 14 wet (WAM S 83006); 16 wet (FMNH 219401); Sta. KC-099, small island SW of Lucas Island, - 15.231, 124.483 (coll. V. Kessner, A. Longbottom, 24 July 1988), 38 dry (WAM S 83004); 38 dry (FMNH 219396); Sta. KC099, small island SW of Lucas Island, - 15.231, 124.483 (coll. V. Kessner, A. Longbottom, 24 July 1988), 6 wet (WAM S 83005); 6 wet (FMNH 219397). Etymology . In reference to the pale shell colour, derived from “ pallidus ” (Latin = pale); adjective of feminine gender. Description . Shell (Fig. 3 E; 5 C–D). Large, elevated and broadly conical. Whorls with slightly angulate periphery, moderately shouldered underneath suture. Axial ribs weak. Colour horn. Genitalia (Fig. 7 A). Penis almost half as long as anterior part of oviduct (= vagina and free oviduct). Inner penial wall supporting complex sculpture, posteriorly with three large pads bearing transverse folds and tubercles, anteriorly with longitudinal folds extending into atrium. Vagina almost half as long as penis and free oviduct. Spermoviduct twice as long as free oviduct and about 1.5 times longer than albumen gland. Remarks. Shell colour lighter than other congeners. On average shell larger than other congeners except A. augustae , A. rotunda , A. sanctumpatriciusae more elevated than other congeners except A. augustae with the largest number of whorls. Sculpture finer than in A. augustae , A. crassicostata , A. nana , A. rotunda and A. sanctumpatriciusae . Inner penial wall sculpture similar to that of A. nana but with less developed transverse folds on lateral pads.This is Solem’s (1991) manuscript species ‘NSP 76 ’. : Published as part of Criscione, Francesco & Köhler, Frank, 2013, Six new species of Australocosmica Köhler, 2011 from the Kimberley islands, Western Australia (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Camaenidae), pp. 101-115 in Zootaxa 3608 (2) on page 112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/223235