Taxonomic review of Aclis Lóven, 1846 (Gastropoda, Eulimidae) from Brazil with notes on other congeners from the western Atlantic and Saint Helena
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Souza, Leonardo Santos De
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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’
angulata
E.A.
Smith
, 1890
Figs 23A, B
Aclis angulata
E.A.
Smith
, 1890: 280
, pl. 23, Fig. 28.
Type material.
Syntypes
:
NHMUK
1889.10.1.749–767 [19]
.
Type
locality.
Saint Helena
.
Remarks.
The presence of numerous axial ribs through the teleoconch surface does not fit in
Aclis
, but a precise classification in another group remains dubious. This name is a junior homonym of
Aclis angulata
P. Fischer
in
de Folin & Périer, 1869
, which is currently considered a
taxon inquirendum
by
MolluscaBase (2021b)
. As the species of E.A.
Smith
is not an
Aclis
, we refrain from giving a new name for this species that should be placed in another genus or even family.