Scholvienia Strebel, 1910

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 58

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Orthalicidae

Genus Scholvienia Strebel, 1910

Scholvienia Strebel 1910: 20.

Scholvienia (Thomsenia) Strebel 1910: 26, syn. n.

Type species.

Bulimus bitaeniatus Nyst, 1845, by subsequent designation ( Pilsbry 1932: 391).

Description.

Shell elongate-ovate, rimate, rather solid, shell height up to ca. 35-62 mm, colour uniformly (chestnut-)brown, in some species with few spiral bands, protoconch with axial, waving riblets, on the lower part becoming split or broken up in wrinkles, teleoconch with incrassate growth striae, in some species becoming thickened at irregular distances, in some species (additionally) crossed by spiral striation, aperture ovate, relatively small, peristome thin and simple, slightly sinuate in side view.

Distribution.

Peru.

Habitat.

In the leaf litter layer of open montane forest and steppe vegetation.

Anatomy.

Breure 1978: Scholvienia alutacea (Reeve, 1850) [g], Scholvienia bifasciata (Philippi, 1845) [g, h, r], Scholvienia gittenbergerorum (Breure, 1978) [g].

Remarks.

See the remarks under Scholvienia claritae Strebel, 1910 for the synonymization of Thomsenia Strebel, 1910. The occurrence of several morphologically similar species in the Tarma and Chanchamayo regions deserves further study, including anatomical and molecular research.