Simpulopsis Beck, 1837

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 75-76

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Simpulopsidae

Genus Simpulopsis Beck, 1837

Simpulopsis Beck 1837: 100.

Type species.

Helix (Cochlohydra) sulculosa Férussac, 1821, by subsequent designation (Martens in Albers 1860: 309).

Description.

Shell elongate-ovate to globose, rimate or imperforate, thin, protoconch with fine spiral lines that more or less cut the low, oblique riblets or wrinkles into granules, teleoconch smooth or corrugate, last whorl prominent, suture well impressed, aperture oblique to ovate, peristome thin and simple.

Distribution.

Mexico, Guatemala, West Indies, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela.

Habitat.

Arboreal living in humid forests up to ca. 2500 m.

Anatomy.

Heynemann 1868: Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) sulculosa ( Férussac, 1821) [r]; Hylton Scott 1967: Simpulopsis (Eudioptus) citrinovitrea (S. Moricand, 1836) [m, r]; Araujo 1971: Simpulopsis (Eudioptus) citrinovitrea (S. Moricand, 1836) [g, m, p, r]; Araujo 1975a: Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) ovata (Sowerby I, 1822) [g, m, p, r]; Breure 1975a: Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) pseudosulculosa Breure, 1975 [g], Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) sulculosa [g], Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) wiebesi Breure, 1975 [g], Simpulopsis (Eudioptus) araujoi Breure, 1975 [g], Simpulopsis (Eudioptus) citrinovitrea (S. Moricand, 1836) [g]; Breure and Ploeger 1977: Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) pseudosulculosa Breure, 1975 [r], Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) wiebesi Breure, 1975 [r], Simpulopsis (Eudioptus) araujoi Breure, 1975 [r], Simpulopsis (Eudioptus) citrinovitrea (S. Moricand, 1836) [r]; Araujo and Breure 1977: Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) miersi Pfeiffer, 1856 [g, h, p, r]; Tillier 1989: Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) miersi Pfeiffer, 1856 [d, k, n, p]; da Silva and Thomé 2005: Simpulopsis (Eudioptus) citrinovitrea (S. Moricand, 1836) [g, m, p, r]; da Silva and Thomé 2006: Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) gomesae da Silva and Thomé, 2006 [g, m, p, r], Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) prometensis da Silva and Thomé, 2006 [g, m, p, r]; da Silva and Thomé 2007: Simpulopsis (Simpulopsis) decussata Pfeiffer, 1856 [g, m, p, r].

Phylogenetic data.

Breure and Romero 2012: Simpulopsis decussata Pfeiffer, 1856, Simpulopsis rufovirens (S. Moricand, 1846).

Remarks.

This genus is concentrated in eastern and southern Brazil, with one species- Simpulopsis (Eudioptus) citrinovitrea (S. Moricand, 1836)-extending in several Andean countries with a remarkable disjunct distribution. Cuezzo et al. (2013) also mentioned the occurrence in “Chile” for Simpulopsis (Eudioptus) eudioptus (Ihering in Pilsbry, 1897), however, without further evidence.