Durgella hosei Godwin-Austen, 1891
Godwin-Austen (1891) original descriptions on Durgella hosei – “Shell very globosely conoid, glassy, thin; sculpture none, a perfectly polished surface; colour very pale horny; spire low; apex rounded; suture ad pressed; whorls 4, rapidly increasing, sides much rounded, aperture lunate; peristome slightly reflected on the vertical columellar margin.”
“Animal dark coloured, with the pallial margin pale, an overhanging very long hooked lobe above the mucous pore. Right dorsal lobe moderately large, the left anterior dorsal lobe small, black; the posterior pale and extending backwards, thus it is in two lappets. A small tongue-like right shell-lobe evidently capable of great expansion flatly over the shell, as it is very solid and contracted, in the spirit specimen; a well-developed flat triangular left shell-lobe. The foot is divided.” (Godwin-Austen, 1891)
“The odontophore consists of a central, simple, unicuspid tooth, succeeded by an innumerable number of similar bicuspid teeth, the cusps being of nearly equal length and. terminally placed. The jaw is broad and straight on the cutting-edge. The odontophore may be compared with that of Durgella minuta, described by me from the Khasi Hills (Land and Freshwater Moll, of India, p. 144, pi. xxxix.). But better preserved and fresher specimens are required of these small mollusks, and the anatomy should be also examined soon after death, to enable us to accurately understand how they are related to each other.” (Godwin-Austen, 1891)
Type locality – “Busan Hills” leg. Hose (Godwin-Austen, 1891)