Thaumastus (Thaumastus) insolitus (Preston, 1909)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 29-30

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scientific name	Thaumastus (Thaumastus) insolitus (Preston, 1909)
status

Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Megaspiridae

Thaumastus (Thaumastus) insolitus (Preston, 1909) View in CoL Figs 25 D–E, 35

Bulimus (Thaumastus) insolitus Preston 1909: 509, pl. 10 fig. 9; Breure and Ablett 2015: 35, 4 i–iii, L9ii.

Thaumastus insolitus ; Richardson 1995: 377 (references).

Thaumastus (Thaumastus) insolitus ; Ramírez et al. 2003: 282.

Type locality.

"Chanchamayo, Peru".

Type material.

NHMUK 1947.3.11.1, holotype.

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively medium-sized, blackish-brown coloured, coarsly sculptured with transverse ridges crossed by fine, spiral grooves, giving the last whorls a finely beaded appearance, suture somewhat descending in front, peristome thickened, reflexed below, parietal callus polished.

Dimensions.

Shell height 70.4, diameter 31.2 mm.

Distribution.

Peru, Dept. Junín, Chanchamayo valley; ibid., near Campanillayoc ( Zilch 1954: 76); near Carpapata ( Breure 1978).

Ecoregion.

Peruvian Yungas [NT0153].