Diplommatina (Sinica) pupinella Heude, 1885

Diplommatina pupinella Heude, 1885: 97, pl. 24, fig. 13.

Diplommatina (Sinica) pupinella – Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898: 141; Kobelt, 1902: 470.

Type material.

Lectotype, HMT 231 a (Figs 6 K, 12 V), designated herein; seven paralectotypes HMT 231 b, paralectotype USNM 472300, four paralectotypes MCZ 167030.

Type locality.

“ Tchen-k’eou ” [Chengkou, Chongqing City].

Brief description.

Shell dextral, with about 7 whorls. Protoconch smooth. Penultimate slightly expanded; body whorl nearly as wide. Constriction at slightly left of parietal wall. No spiral striation visible. Teleoconch with strong, dense, radial ribs; ca. 7 ribs per 0.5 mm on both penultimate and body whorls. Dorsal fold absent. Umbilicus open, shallow. Double lip present. Columellar tooth present. One short horizontal palatalis just above columella. One vertical palatalis.

Remarks.

The lectotype is designated herein in accordance with Art. 74 of the Code (ICZN 1999) for the stabilisation of the name. Johnson (1973) listed ‘ paratypes’ in USNM and MCZ. Kobelt and Möllendorff (1898) assigned this species to the subgenus Sinica .