Taxonomic review of Aclis Lóven, 1846 (Gastropoda, Eulimidae) from Brazil with notes on other congeners from the western Atlantic and Saint Helena
Author
Souza, Leonardo Santos De
0000-0002-8242-010X
Author
Araújo, Tarciso Almeida De
0000-0002-8242-010X
Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista., São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Author
Pimenta, Alexandre Dias
0000-0002-8242-010X
Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista., São Cristóvão, 20940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-04-09
5433
4
451
499
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5433.4.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5433.4.1
1175-5326
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‘
Aclis
’
gittenbergeri
(
de Jong & Coomans, 1988
)
Figs 24D–E
Bermudaclis gittenbergeri
de Jong & Coomans, 1988: 59
, pl. 4, fig. 303.
Type material.
Holotype
: ZMA.MOLL.138263.
Paratype
:
Aruba
;
West
coast of
Aruba
; ZMA.MOLL.138275 [1].
Type locality.
Aruba
: West coast of
Aruba
.
FIGURE 25
. Type localities of
Aclis
form the Western Atlantic (top left) and specimen records of
Aclis
species
in Brazil. Type localities in Brazil according to colored circles; type localities in North America: 1.
Aclis eolis
; 2.
Aclis foridana
,
Aclis rushi
; 3.
Aclis dalli
,
Aclis conula
,
Aclis stilifer
,
Aclis pyramida
,
Aclis georgiana
,
Aclis hendersoni
,
Aclis marguerita
,
Aclis fernandinae
; 4.
Aclis
v
errilli
; 5.
Aclis tenuis
.
Remarks.
This species was originally described in
Bermudaclis
Bartsch, 1947
, which is a junior synonym of
Murchisonella
Mörch, 1875
(
Peñas & Rolán 2013
).
Peñas & Rolán (2013: 61)
noted that this species is not a
Murchisonellidae
, but possibly belongs to
Aclis
. However, the presence of low axial ribs and fine spiral striae in the whole teleoconch surface (
Fig. 24D, E
) does not fit in
Aclis
. The protoconch of this species seems slightly deviated. The study of the
type
material under SEM would be necessary for better classification, but we here suggest that this species is a ‘lower heterobranch’.