Thaumastus (Thaumastus) buckleyi (Higgins, 1872)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 26

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Megaspiridae

Thaumastus (Thaumastus) buckleyi (Higgins, 1872) Figs 28 C–D, 33

Orthalicus (Porphyrobaphe) buckleyi Higgins 1872: 685, pl. 56 fig. 3; Breure and Ablett 2015: 25, figs 3 iv–v, L3iii.

Thaumastus buckleyi ; Richardson 1995: 374 (references);

Thaumastus (Thaumastus) buckleyi ; Breure and Borrero 2008: 8.

Type locality.

[Ecuador, Prov. Loja] "San Lucas".

Type material.

NHMUK 1872.5.22.6, two syntypes.

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively large, slender and elongate, apex obtuse, colour tawny-yellow, whorls slightly convex, suture well impressed, sculptured with incrassate growth lines and malleation, especially on the last whorl, peristome expanded and narrowly reflexed.

Dimensions.

Shell height 93, diam. 36 mm.

Distribution.

Ecuador, Loja, San Lucas (NHMUK, USNM 317381).

Ecoregion.

Northwestern Andean montane forests [NT0145].

Remarks.

This species is only known from the type locality and is possibly a short-range endemic. The material referred to by Strebel (1909: 138) must be considered lost.