Plekocheilus ( Eurytus )\according to Breure et al 2016
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Ordo: Stylommatophora
Familia: Amphibulimidae
Name
Plekocheilus Albers, 1850 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Helix pentadina d’Orbigny, 1835, by subsequent designation (Albers 1860[2]: 195).
Diagnosis
Shell (elongate-)ovate, height up to ca. 35–ca. 75 mm (study area), colour brownish, usually with darker spots, arranged in axial streaks or oblique series, zigzags or irregularly spaced, whorls slightly convex, suture well impressed, aperture (elongate- or sub-) ovate, columellar margin usually entering with a slight fold above, peristome simple or slightly expanded and reflexed.
Distribution
West Indies, Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia.
Habitat
Species classified with this taxon fall into two groups: (a) occurring in lowland (rain)forests at altitudes up to ca. 1000 m, or (b) living in montane forests at ca. 1250–3500 m. The species may be found in leaf litter or on shrubs.
Remarks
This subgenus is not mentioned by Schileyko (1999)[3]. See Figs 85A–B and 86G–H for unidentified living specimens from Ecuador.
Key to species in the study area
Taxon Treatment
- Breure, A; Avila, V; 2016: Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae ZooKeys, (588): 1-199. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Albers J (1850) Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Enslin, Berlin, 262 pp.
- ↑ Albers J (1860) Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers, 2e Ausgabe. Engelmann, Leipzig, xviii + 359 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.11218
- ↑ Schileyko A (1999) Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, 3. Partulidae, Aillyidae, Bulimulidae, Orthalicidae, Megaspiridae, Urocoptidae. Ruthenica, Supplement 2: 263–436.
