Corona pfeifferi (Hidalgo, 1869)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 45

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Orthalicidae

Corona pfeifferi (Hidalgo, 1869) Figs 41 A–E, 43, 89A

Orthalicus pfeifferi Hidalgo 1869b: 412; Hidalgo 1870: 65, pl. 6 fig. 8.

Corona pfeifferi cincta Strebel 1909: 135, pl. 21 fig. 337, pl. 22 figs 356-357; Breure 2013a: 16, figs 18 A–B, 18i.

Corona pfeifferi ; Richardson 1993: 68 (references); Breure and Mogollón 2010: 27, figs 2-4, 14, 37-38.

Type locality.

[Ecuador, Prov. Pastaza] "Canelos, reipublicae Aequatoris".

Type material.

MACN 15.05/3280 (1), syntype.

Additional material.

ZMB 101836 (1), syntype of Corona pfeifferi cincta Strebel, 1909.

Dimensions.

Shell height 56.3, diameter 25.0 mm.

Diagnosis.

Shell dextral, elongate-ovate, rather solid, creamy ground colour with numerous small axial, partly waving, brown streaks, a few broader and intense brown, peripheral band hardly noticeable or light with few brown markings (<<).

Distribution.

Ecuador, Prov. Napo, Tena (RBINS); ibid., Tiputini (RBINS); Prov. Pastaza, Canelos; Prov. Tungurahua, Topo ( Breure and Borrero 2008). Peru, Dept. Loreto, near río Curaray (Breure and Mogollón 2010).

Ecoregion.

Eastern Cordillera real montane forests [NT0121], Northwestern Andean montane forests [NT0145].

Remarks.

Hitherto this is the only published record of this Ecuadorian species from Peru.