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TROPICAL NATURAL HISTORY, SUPPLEMENT 4, NOVEMBER 2014
Rivers to the Mahanadi.
We have adopted the following regional
arrangement for India: East India (states of
Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha);
North India (states of Chhattisgarh, Himachal
Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir,
Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan,
Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh, the
National Capital Territory of Delhi and the
Union Territory of Chandigarh); Northeast
India (states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,
Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland,
Sikkim and Tripura); South India (states of
Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala
and Tamil Nadu, and the Union Territory of
Puducherry); and West India (states of
Gujarat and Maharashtra, Union Territories
of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and
Diu). State and Union Territories follow:
Know India (http://knowindia.gov.in/defa
ult.php) and the National Portal of India
(http://india.gov.in).
A number of different web-based sources
are cited in this revision, and all of these
were last accessed on 21 February 2014.
SYSTEMATIC REVISION
Clade Caenogastropoda
Informal Group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily Cyclophoroidea
Family Cyclophoridae
Genus Cyclophorus
1. Cyclophorus altivagus Benson, 1854
Cyclophorus altivagus Benson, 1854, Annals
and Magazine of Natural History, Series
2, 14: 411
Cyclophorus (Glossostylus) altivagus -
Gude, 1921, FBI, Mollusca-III: 56
Distribution: endemic to the Western
Ghats. Known from Mahabaleshwar in the
northern Western Ghats.
Original locality: summit of the ghats at
Mahabaleshwar, "Southern India" (A.E.
Benson).
Type material: a neotype is here designated
from a series of 7 shells, "Bens. Col., R.
MacAndrew Coll., 1873", UMZC (reg. no.
I.103835). These shells were originally in at
least two distinct lots with separate labels
("Bens Col. So. Ind: Mahabaleshwar", and
"Bens. col. So Ind."), but were subsequently
confused. The neotype is labelled "Punah …
Mahabuleshwar" (reg. no. I.103835.A, Fig.
7A). It is clearly not the heavily-worn
specimen on which Benson’s description
was based – this shell, Benson’s holotype,
could not be traced. We have designated a
neotype with the express purpose of
clarifying the taxonomic status of C.
altivagus (see the original description by
Benson, 1854).
Other material: 2 of the 6 remaining shells
from the above lot (reg. nos. I.103835.B,
I.103835.C., Figs. 7B, C), "Bens. Col., R.
MacAndrew Coll., 1873", UMZC.
2. Cyclophorus indicus (Deshayes, 1834)
Cyclostoma indicum Deshayes, Mollusques,
in Bélanger 1834, Voyage aux Indes-
Orientales, Zoologie: 415, pl. 1, figs. 4, 5
Cyclophorus (Glossostylus) indicus - Gude,
1921, FBI, Mollusca-III: 63
Distribution: endemic to the Western
Ghats. Known from Elephanta Island,