Thaumastus (Thaumastiella) koepckei Zilch, 1953

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 23

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scientific name	Thaumastus (Thaumastiella) koepckei Zilch, 1953
status

Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Megaspiridae

Thaumastus (Thaumastiella) koepckei Zilch, 1953 Figs 19H, 20

Thaumastus (Scholvienia) koepckei Zilch 1953: 53, pl. 14 fig. 3; Neubert and Janssen 2004: 214, pl. 2 fig. 25.

Thaumastus koepckei ; Richardson 1995: 378 (references).

Thaumastus (Thaumastiella) koepckei ; Ramírez et al. 2003: 282.

Type locality.

"Peru, Hacienda Monteseco (ca. 6°50'S 79°10'W)".

Type material.

SMF 111487, holotype.

Additional material.

SMF 111468 (3), 111488 (24), paratypes.

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively large, reddish-brown with a yellow peripheral band, surface with a fine spiral sculpture, which is dissolved in the finest elongated marked tubercles, as the basis for fine flat small bristles, peristome thickened.

Dimensions.

Shell height 46.6, diameter 21.4 mm.

Distribution.

Peru, Dept. Cajamarca, Hacienda Monteseco (ca. 6°50'S 79°10'W).

Ecoregion.

Tumbes-Piura dry forests [NT0232].

Remarks.

The above diagnosis is based on the original description for this species, for which we know no other material than the types.