Diplommatina superba superba Godwin-Austen & Nevill, 1879
“This truly ‘superb’ little shell presents, it is true, some similarities with species of Palaina, but chiefly in the sculpture, on which subgeneric distinctions should not be based. On account of the constricted penultimate whorl I should class it as a Diancta.” (Möllendorff, 1886)
Godwin-Austen & Nevill (1879) original descriptions on Diplommatina (Sinica) superba – “Shell sinistral, elongately pyramidal, very solid; colour ruddy ochre; sculpture fine close costulation, waved on the periphery of the last whorls, the apical whorls smooth. Spire very pointed, suture deep. Whorls 7.3, last very angular, almost keeled; the antepenultimate the broadest; the penultimate the most swollen. Aperture large, circular, very oblique. Peristome much thickened, widely double; the inner lip continuous; the outer angular on the outer margin, rounded below.”
Kobelt (1902) descriptions on Diplommatina (Sinica) superba – “Schale linksgewunden, hoch kegelförmig, sehr festwandig, mit feinen, dichten, auf der Peripherie der letzten Windung welligen Kippen, schmutzig ockerfarben; Apex glatt, sehr spitz; Naht tief; über 7 Windungen, letzte scharf kantig, fast gekielt, drittletzte am breitesten, vorletzte am stärksten aufgetrieben; Mündung gross, ki-eisrund, sehr schräg; Mundrand stark verdickt, breit, doppelt: innerer zusammenhängend, äusserer oben eckig, unten abgerundet.”
Laidlaw (1949) original descriptions on Diplommatina superba superba – “Shell elongate-pyramidal, spire pointed, whorls 7 ½, the last two strongly angled, the penultimate wider than the last. Ribs wavy, close-set, scabrous on the last two whorls. Peristome well expanded, especially on the labial side.”
Diplommatina (Sinica) superba – “Size, alt. 0.094, maj. diam. 0.06 in.” (Godwin-Austen & Nevill, 1879); Diplommatina (Sinica) superba – “H. 2.4, Durchm. 1.8 mm.” (Kobelt, 1902); Diplommatina superba superba – “Length 2.6 mm. Breadth max. 1.2 mm.” (Laidlaw, 1949)
Type locality – “Buket Pondong cave” Leg. Dr. Townsend (Godwin-Austen & nevill, 1879)
Habitat – Probably living on the limestone wall’s surface covered with wet mosses.