Stephacharopa calderaensis
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Ordo: Pulmonata
Familia: Bothriembryontidae
Genus: Stephacharopa
Name
Stephacharopa calderaensis Miquel & Araya, 2013 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Stephacharopa calderaensis Miquel & Araya, 2013: 227, figs 2–5
Material examined
El Morro hills (27°8'33"S, 70°55'35"W), Commune of Caldera, August 2012, JFA 100127, 37 specimens MZUC 39613 (lot), RMNH.MOL 329670 (lot). Quebrada del León sector (26°57'S, 70°44'W), JFA 100128, 12 specimens.
Diagnosis
This species has a tiny (largest specimen: 3.1 mm width), orbicular, low-spired shell, sculptured by numerous axial lamellae (about 90–95 in last whorl), with a depressed apex, a thin and brownish periostracum and an ample umbilicus. Live animals are unknown.
Distribution and remarks
According to Miquel and Araya (2013)[1] this species has a patchy distribution, having been found only in the vicinites of the port of Caldera, Region of Atacama, Chile.
Taxon Treatment
- Araya, J; Catalán, R; 2014: A review of the non-bulimulid terrestrial Mollusca from the Region of Atacama, northern Chile ZooKeys, 398: 33-51. doi
Other References
- ↑ Miquel S, Araya J (2013) A new Charopidae from Chile and Argentina, Stephacharopa calderaensis n. gen. and n. sp., with remarks on the taxonomy of the genus Stephadiscus Hylton Scott 1981. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 142(2): 227-235.