Figure 5.
Shells of Parreysia and Balwantia species from the Indian Subcontinent. (a) P. keralaensis sp. nov., Periyar River, Aluva, Kerala, India (holotype FBRC ZSI 1007-a/RCB2). (b) P. keralaensis sp. nov., the type locality (museum lot FBRC ZSI 1007; paratype RCB3). (c) P. corrugata (Müller, 1774), brook at fish ponds, Hetauda, Ganges Basin, Narayani Zone, Central Region, Nepal (specimen SMF 348829/16.02). (d) P. corrugata (Müller, 1774). Krishna River, Nagarjuna Sagar, Telangana, India (museum lot FBRC ZSI 1224; specimen RPf1). (e) P. nagpoorensis (Lea, 1860), Ramganga River near Moradabad, Ganges Basin, Uttar Pradesh, India (= Unio pinax Benson, 1862: syntype UMZC I.105035.B241). (f) P. nagpoorensis (Lea, 1860), Krishna River, Nagarjuna Sagar, Telangana, India (museum lot FBRC ZSI 1224; specimen RPf2). (g) P. rajahensis (Lea, 1841). Rajah’s Tank, India (holotype NMNH 84638). (h) B. soleniformis (Benson, 1836). Brahmaputra River, India (specimen NMNH 127246). Scale bar = 20 mm [a-e, g]; scale bar = 25 mm [f]; scale bar = 30 mm [h]. Photos: N. V. Subba Rao and R. Pasupuleti [a, b, d, f], S. Hof [c], K. Webb [e], and NMNH collection database under a CC0 1.0 license [g, h].