The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Mollusca. (Freshwater Gastropoda & Pelecypoda.) / by H.B. Preston.

Date:
1915
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Mollusca. (Freshwater Gastropoda & Pelecypoda.) / by H.B. Preston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    depressis et marginatis; apertura mediocri; virescenti-olivacea, rufo-nigricante irregulariter 1'asciata. The dimensions given below are taken From the figure in the * Conchologia Indica.' Alt. 20-25, diam. 15-75 mm. Jlah. Sikkim branch of the Gauges. Characterized by a fine sculpture of close-set longitudinal ribs. 68. Paludomus constricta, Reeve. Paludomus constricta, Reeve, P. Z. S. 1852, p. 129; H. & T., C. I. pi. 126, figs. 1-4. Original description:—Testa subpyramidali-oblonga, solida, spira exserta; anf ractibus lasvibus vel obscurissime sulcatis, superne concavo-constrictis ; olivacea, fascia nigropunctata, moni- liformi, versus apicem picta; apertura ovata, callosa, alba. The dimensions quoted below are taken from fig. 1, pi. 126, in the ' Conchologia Indica.' Alt. 2525, diam. 185 mm. Hub. Mountain streams of Ceylon. Differing from P. conica, to which it is most nearly allied, chiefly by its more oblong and constricted form. 69. Paludomus ornata, Benson. Paludomus ornata, Benson, A. M. N. H. (ser. 2) xvii, 1856, p. 496 ; U.&T., C. I. pi. 108, fig. 8. Original description:—Testa ovato-conica, solidiuscula, lawiuscula, striis remotis obsoletis, cincta infra suturam marginatam bisulcata, luteo-olivacea, fasciis 4 fusco-castaneis, suturali angusta, secunda latissima, quarta inconspicua, ornata; spira conica, apice eroso; anfractibus 4 superstitious convexis, ultimo | testae vix superante; apertura vix obliqua, ovata, fauce cseruleo-albida, 4 fasciata, superne angulata, angulo intus calloso ; peristomate tenui, acuto, marginibus callo albo junctis, columellari subrevoluto, angusto, albo. Operc. — ? Alt. 18, diam. 13 mm. Aperture : alt. 13, diam. 8 mm. Hah. Burma. 70. Paludomus andersoniana, Nevill. Paludomus andersoniana, Nevill, J. A. S. B. xlvi, pt. 2, p. 35; loc. cit., 1, pt. 2, p. 160, pi. 5, fig. 2. Original description :—[Shell] large and globose ; spire produced and pointed; of a strikiug greenish-yellow colour, with four intense black bands on the last whorl, the one at the suture and the two near the base about the width of the broadest band ou P. ornata; the second band from the suture twice this width,