Paeniscutalus Wurtz, 1947

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 20

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scientific name	Paeniscutalus Wurtz, 1947
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Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Megaspiridae

Genus Paeniscutalus Wurtz, 1947 View in CoL

Bulimulus (Paeniscutalus) Wurtz 1947: 12.

Type species.

Megalobulimus (Microborus) incarum Pilsbry, 1944, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Shell ovate, rimate, rather solid, suture crenulate, surface smooth with more or less incrassate growth striae, aperture (sub-)ovate, peristome slightly thickened and hardly expanded.

Distribution.

Peru.

Habitat.

Living under stones and buried in the ground at elevations of 1850-3300 m.

Anatomy.

Wurtz 1947: Paeniscutalus crenellus (Philippi, 1867) [g, m, p, r]; Breure 1978: Paeniscutalus crenellus [g, h, r].

Phylogenetic data.

Breure and Romero 2012: Paeniscutalus crenellus (Philippi, 1867).