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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Hwang CC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6237895 | biostudies-other | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
ZooKeys 20181108 795
Two new sinistral species of the genus <i>Satsuma</i> A. Adams, 1868, <i>Satsumasquamigera</i> <b>sp. n.</b> and <i>Satsumaadiriensis</i> <b>sp. n.</b>, from southern Taiwan are described. <i>Satsumasquamigera</i> <b>sp. n.</b> is characterized by a microsculpture comprising coarse, irregularly-spaced ridges and dense, easily-dislodged triangular scales on its sinistral shell, an angulated periphery, and partly-opened umbilicus. This species inhabits secondary forests in lowland hills. <i>Satsum ...[more]