Diplommatina (Sinica) pyra Heude, 1885

Diplommatina pyra Heude, 1885: 98, pl. 24, fig. 14.

Diplommatina (Sinica) pyra – Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898: 141; Kobelt, 1902: 471.

Type material.

Lectotype, HMT 230 a (Figs 6 L, 12 W), designated herein; paralectotype MCZ 167219.

Type locality.

“ Tchen Keou tin ” [Chengkou, Chongqing City].

Brief description.

Shell dextral, with about 7 whorls. Protoconch smooth. Penultimate slightly expanded; body whorl nearly as wide. Constriction at middle of parietal wall. No spiral striation visible. Teleoconch with strong, dense, radial ribs; ca. 7 ribs per 0.5 mm on penultimate whorl, ca. 8 ribs per 0.5 mm on body whorl. Dorsal fold absent. Umbilicus open, shallow. Double lip present. Columellar tooth absent. One short horizontal palatalis just above columella. No vertical palatalis visible.

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 one ‘ paratype’ in the MCZ. Kobelt and Möllendorff (1898) assigned this species to the subgenus Sinica .