Plekocheilus (Eurytus) bruggeni Breure, 1978

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 9-10

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.588.7906

publication LSID

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scientific name

Plekocheilus (Eurytus) bruggeni Breure, 1978
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Amphibulimidae

Plekocheilus (Eurytus) bruggeni Breure, 1978 View in CoL Figs 2 E–G, 14

Plekocheilus (Eurytus) bruggeni Breure 1978: 9, pl. 6 figs 5-7; Richardson 1995: 306 (references); Ramírez et al. 2003: 281; Breure and Ablett 2011: 17, figs 18 D–F, 18ii.

Type locality.

"Peru, Dept. Pasco, Huancabamba".

Type material.

NHMUK 1911.11.2.88, holotype.

Additional material.

Paratypes NHMUK 1911.11.2.89-90 (2), RMNH 55122 (1).

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively medium-sized, rather solid, colour light brown with irregular reddish-brown dots, surface with numerous cutical spiral striae, suture somewhat descending in front, aperture elongate-ovate, peristome thin and simple.

Dimensions.

Shell height 39.0, diameter 19.5 mm.

Distribution.

Peru, Dept. Pasco, Huancabamba.

Remarks.

This taxon is only known from the type locality.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

SuperFamily

Orthalicoidea

Family

Amphibulimidae

Genus

Plekocheilus

SubGenus

Plekocheilus