Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) Pilsbry, 1896

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 6

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scientific name	Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) Pilsbry, 1896
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Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Amphibulimidae

Subgenus Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) Pilsbry, 1896

Auris (Eudolichotis) Pilsbry 1896 [1895-1896]: 108.

Plekocheilus (Sparnotion) Pilsbry 1944c: 30 (syn. n.).

Type species.

Bulimus distortus Bruguière, 1789, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively medium-sized, fusiform, a papillose-granulose sculpture on the last whorl, the aperture elongate, with a produced pinkish lip, the columellar margin with a slight fold entering the aperture.

Distribution.

West Indies, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela.

Habitat.

The species live mainly in arid conditions in the leaf litter layer of xerophytic shrub vegetation and in deciduous forests. The following, Peruvian species is an exception, living in rainforest.

Anatomy.

Araujo 1975b: Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) lacertus (Pfeiffer, 1855) [g, m, p, r]; Breure 1978: Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) aurissciuri (Guppy, 1866) [g, r], Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) distortus ( Bruguière, 1789) [r], Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) glaber glaber (Gmelin, 1791) [g, r], Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) glaber grenadensis (Guppy, 1868) [g, r].

Phylogenetic data.

Breure 2013b: Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) glaber glaber (Gmelin, 1791), Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) glaber grenadensis (Guppy, 1868).

Remarks.

The reasons for considering Plekocheilus (Sparnotion) Pilsbry, 1944 a junior subjective synonym are given below.