Porphyrobaphe Shuttleworth, 1856

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 53-54

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scientific name	Porphyrobaphe Shuttleworth, 1856
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Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Orthalicidae

Genus Porphyrobaphe Shuttleworth, 1856 View in CoL

Porphyrobaphe Shuttleworth 1856: 70.

Type species.

Bulimus iostomus Sowerby I, 1824, by subsequent designation (Martens in Albers, 1860: 227).

Description.

Shell ovate-conical, imperforate, rather solid, up to ca. 60-80 mm (study area), groundcolour yellowish to tawny, with longitudinal streaks (or with an irregular zigzag pattern or with irregular spots), protoconch smooth, teleoconch sculptured with growth striae and spiral impressions, which may be either closely set or at larger intervals, aperture ovate, columellar margin straight, peristome expanded and narrowly reflexed.

Distribution.

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

Habitat.

As far as known mainly found in leaf litter, but some species are (also) tree-inhabiting.

Anatomy.

Fischer and Crosse 1870-1878: Porphyrobaphe (Porphyrobaphe) iostoma (Sowerby I, 1824) [m, r]; Breure and Schouten 1985: Porphyrobaphe (Porphyrobaphe) iostoma [g, r], Porphyrobaphe (Oxyorthalicus) iris (Pfeiffer, 1853) [g, h, r], Porphyrobaphe (Oxyorthalicus) irrorata (Reeve, 1849) [g, r].

Phylogenetic data.

Breure et al. 2010: Porphyrobaphe (Porphyrobaphe) iostoma (Sowerby I, 1824).