Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Amphibulimidae

Plekocheilus (Eurytus) aureonitens (Miller, 1878) Fig. 9A

Eurytus aureonitens Miller 1878: 181; Miller 1879: pl. 6 fig. 2.

Plekocheilus aureonitens; Richardson 1995: 303 (references).

Plekocheilus (Eurytus) aureonitens; Breure and Borrero 2008: 5.

Type locality.

[Ecuador] "Valli Pilatonensi".

Type material.

Not located.

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively medium-sized, rather thin, sculptured with fine granulation, the last whorl nearly smooth, suture deeply descending in front, columella twisted (Pilsbry 1895 [1895-1896]).

Dimensions.

Shell height 53, diameter 25 mm.

Distribution.

Ecuador, Prov. Pichincha, Río Pilatón valley.

Ecoregion.

Northwestern Andean montane forests [NT0145].

Remarks.

This species is only known from the type locality at an altitude of 1000 m, and may prove to be a synonym of Plekocheilus (Eurytus) taylorianus (Reeve, 1849).