Notoptychia Ehrmann, 1927

Dedov, Ivailo, Vu, Quang Manh, Le, Chi Toan, Tra, Van Tung & Szekeres, Miklos, 2025, The Clausiliidae (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) of the Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam, Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 77 (1), pp. 41-48 : 42

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scientific name	Notoptychia Ehrmann, 1927
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Genus Notoptychia Ehrmann, 1927 View in CoL

Notoptychia Ehrmann 1927: 36 View in CoL

Type species: Clausilia polydona Mabille, 1887 , by original designation.

Notoptychia polydona (Mabille, 1887)

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Clausilia polydona Mabille, 1887a: 45 View in CoL

Type locality: “ Tonkin ” .

Locality data: Tam Dao N. P., rain forest, 800–900 m, leg. A. Napolov 1998; Tam Dao N. P., forest – 1 km NE of the centre of the resort (21.4607°N 105.6488°E), 1060 m, leg. R. Bekchiev, I. Dedov, M. Langurov & N. Simov 2023 ( Fig. 2A, B); Tam Dao N. P., forest 2.1 km north of the centre of the resort (21.4733°N 105.6394°E), 980 m, leg. R. Bekchiev, I. Dedov, M. Langurov & N. Simov 2023 ( Fig. 2C); Tam Dao N. P., forest 1.4 km north of the centre of the resort (21.4672°N 105.6440°E), 1010 m, leg. R. Bekchiev, I. Dedov, M. Langurov & N. Simov 2023 GoogleMaps .

Distribution: The species occurs sporadically in Bac Kan, Lang Son, Thai Nguyen, Son La and Hoa Binh Provinces.

Habitat: Undisturbed forests, under and inside decaying tree trunks.

Remark: This species was described from a gastropod material collected by Benedict Balansa in Tonkin and provided without more precise locality data ( Mabille 1887a, 1887b). However, the species diversity of Balansa’s material suggests that all of the samples originate from the central part of Lang Son Province. So far, N. polydona is known only from Vietnam but occurrence data near the borders suggest its possible presence in Guangxi Province ( China) and Houaphanh Province ( Laos).