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175. Vivipara variata (Frauenfeld).
Vivipara variata (Frauenfeld), Verhandl. zool.-bot., Ges. Wien,
1862, p. 1163 (as Paludina) ; H. & T., 0. I. pi. 115, fig. 8.
Shell somewhat conic, narrowly deeply umbilicate ; olive-green,
slightly polished ; whorls 5?, not very convex, the last descending
behind the aperture, marked with weak growth lines and sculptured
with regular, numerous, very fine, punctate, spiral stria;
suture well impressed ; aperture pj'riform ; interior of shell of a
dirty bluish colour; labrum polished, black,
Alt. 21, diam. 16 mm.
Aperture : alt. 12, diam. 10 mm.
Hob. Pondicherry.
Var. pseudohelicina, Kohelt, in Martini & Chemnitz, Conch.-
Cab. 19U8, p. 293, pi. 59, iigs. 5-8.
Vivipara dissimilis subsp. heliciformis, Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 30
(nee Frauenfeld).
Original description :-—Testa subobiecte rimata, ovata, solida,
subtiliter striatula, sculptura spirali nulla, olivaceo-viridis ; spira
erosa, sutura linearis. Anfractus, superst. 4-5 convexi, inferi
supra subangulati, ultimus ad peripheriam obsolete angnlatus,
hasi convexus, antice baud descendens. Apertura vix obliqua,
sat angusttj ovata, supra leviter acuminata, intus cceruleo-albida,
late, nigro-limbata; margo columellaris leviter incrassatulus.
Alt. 20, diam, 17 mm.
Aperture: alt. 11, diam, 9 mm.
Hah. Pegu.
Var. peguensis, Kohelt, in Martini & Chemnitz, Conch.-Cab.
1909, p. 378, pi. 58, iigs. 7, 8.
Original description :—Testa anguste et subobtecte umbilicata,
ovato-globosa, spira breviter toiiica, erosa, saturate viridescentefusca,
hie illic anguste uigro strigata, anfractibus convexis, sutura
profunda discretis, ultimus magnus, obsoletissime angulatus, circa
umbilicum suboompressus ; peristoma late nigrolimbatum. Operculum
crassiusculum, extus limbo incrassata, intus disco pedali
])rominente munitum,
Alt. 21, diam. 17 mm.
Aperture : alt. 12, diam. 10 mm.
Hah. Mouljnein, Pegu.
176. Vivipara ceylonica (Dohm).
Vivipara ceylonica (Dohm), P. Z. S. 1867, p. 123 (as Paludina);
Reeve, Con. Icon., Paludina, sp. 32 (as F. ceylaniea); H. & T.,
C, I, pi. 77, figs. 1, 2, P. ceylaniea.
Original description-.—Testa ovalo-conica, perforata, solidiuscula,