New camaenid genus and species from Zhejiang, East China (Eupulmonata, Helicoidea)

New camaenid genus and species from Zhejiang, East China (Eupulmonata, Helicoidea)

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We report a new land snail species representing a new genus from the The Short mountainous area of Zhejiang, China.The snail has a depressed shell with granules all over the surface.The soft part of the new taxon is characterized by the presence of a mantle lobe whose form is reviewed herein across a wide range of helicoid snails, the presence of a developed epiphallic papilla, and the absence of a penial sheath, a dart sac apparatus and a flagellum.As indicated by a molecular-based phylogeny (16S + ITS2), the new taxon Water Filter is deeply nested in the eastern Asian camaenid genera and shows a close relationship with the camaenids distributed in Central China.