New Orthalicidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Venezuelan Guayana: unravelling secrets from the Lost World
Author
Breure, Abraham S. H.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2065
25
50
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186920
695e995e-3a9a-41b8-bafa-ed8366b37ef4
1175-5326
186920
Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) sinuatus
(
Albers, 1854
)
(
Fig. 6
K)
Bulimus sinuatus
Albers, 1854
: 32
.
Type
locality:
Venezuela
;
lectotype
ZMB
101794
(
Köhler 2007
).
Material.
Venezuela
, Estado Amazonas,
10 km
S Río Autana,
4° 44’ N
67° 33’ W
,
100 m
,
O
. Huber leg.,
2.vii.1979
(
RMNH
112032
/2).
Shell dimensions are given
Table 1
.
Remarks.
This species is reported here for the first time from the Venezuelan Guayana area. Hitherto it was only known from the Cordillera de la Costa in northern
Venezuela
(
Baker
1926
,
Thompson 1957
,
Breure 1976
). There it was found in cloud forest at
1000 m
elevation and the current finding in the lowland was unexpected. It is closely allied to the somewhat smaller
P. (E.) euryomphalus
(Jonas, 1844)
, which has been reported from the Roraima savannah in
Guyana
(
Solem 1964
).