Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae
Author
Breure, Abraham S. H.
Author
Avila, Valentin Mogollon
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ZooKeys
2016
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.588.7906
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.588.7906
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Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Amphibulimidae
Plekocheilus (Eurytus) jimenezi (Hidalgo, 1872)
Figs 10
C-F
, 14
Bulimus gibbonius
Hidalgo 1870
: 54. Not
Bulimus gibbonius
Lea, 1838.
Bulimus jimenezi
Hidalgo 1872
: 93, pl. 5 figs 2-3.
Plekocheilus jimenezi
;
Richardson 1995
: 315 (references, synonymy [partly]).
Plekocheilus (Eurytus) jimenezi
;
Breure and Borrero 2008
: 6;
Borrero and Breure 2011
: 43, figs 15
A-B
.
Type locality.
[Ecuador] "San
Jose"
.
Type material.
MNCN 15.05/1066 (2), MNCN 15.05/3158 (2), syntypes.
Diagnosis.
Shell relatively large, solid, with oblique series of more or less spirally arranged reddish-brown spots, evenly and dense granulation, suture somewhat descending in front and slightly ascending behind lip, aperture broadly ovate, peristome narrowly expanded and reflexed.
Dimensions.
Shell height 74.9, diameter 48.4 mm.
Distribution.
Ecuador, Prov. Napo, Nachiyacu; ibid., Sarayacu (see
Weyrauch 1967
: 463); ibid., valley of
Rio
Quijos; Prov. Orellana, San
Jose
de Suno; Prov. Pastaza, Puyo; ibid., Mera (
Breure and Borrero 2008
).
Ecoregion.
Eastern Cordillera real montane forests [NT0121].
Remarks.
The type locality is-according to
Weyrauch (1967
: 463)-located 50 km E Baeza; this points to Prov. Orellana, San
Jose
de Suno, also known as San
Jose
Viejo.
Bulimus gibbonius
Hidalgo, 1870 has the same type locality and is, following the opinion of Pilsbry (Pilsbry 1895 [1895-1896]: 87), a subjective synonym of
Bulimus jimenezi
Hidalgo, 1872.