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2025 , Vol. 50 >Issue 2: 150 - 158

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.2025205

Original Article

Three new species of Dentisphaera from Southern China (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Hypselostomatidae)

  • Zheyu Chen ,
  • Liwen Lin ,
  • Yutong Ding ,
  • Jozef Grego ,
  • Barna Páll-Gergely
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  • 1Parasitology and vectors Lab, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia 

    2Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK 

    3Hubei Broad Nature Technology Service Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430079, P.R. China 

    4Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK 

    5Horná Mičiná 219, SK-97401 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

    6Hungary Plant Protection Institute, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Herman Ottó út 15, H-1022 Budapest, Hungary

Zheyu Chen; Barna Páll-Gergely

Online published: 2025-04-24

Supported by

This study was funded by research grants from the Malacological Society of London and the Melbourne Research Scholarship for ZYC, and the Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA FK 135262) and the Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for BPG.

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Abstract

Dentisphaera Páll-Gergely & Jochum, 2017 is a troglobitic land snails genus known to harbour only one species found in a single cave in North Vietnam. Based on recently collected specimens from China, three species, Dentisphaera lagredeae Chen, Grego & Páll-Gergely, sp. nov., Dentisphaera shzha Chen, Grego & Páll-Gergely, sp. nov. and Dentisphaera zhoui Chen, Lin & Páll-Gergely, sp. nov. are introduced as new to science. The distribution range of Dentisphaera is extended based on the collecting records of these new species.

Key words： China, microsnails, new taxa, subterranean biodiversity, taxonomy

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Zheyu Chen , Liwen Lin , Yutong Ding , Jozef Grego , Barna Páll-Gergely . Three new species of Dentisphaera from Southern China (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Hypselostomatidae)[J]. Zoological Systematics, 2025 , 50(2) : 150 -158 . DOI: 10.11865/zs.2025205

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