Scutalus macedoi
Scutalus macedoi is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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| Subgenus: | Vermiculatus |
| Species: | S. macedoi |
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| Scutalus macedoi Weyrauch, 1967[1] | |
Distribution
This species was described from Capillacocha, 11°10’09’S 076°02’25’W, 4150 m, Junín Region, Peru.[2]
Breure (2010)[2] recorded it for the first time from the western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental near Laguna El Viuda, 11°21’45’S 076°38’23’W, 4450 m, Canta Province, Lima Region, Peru.[2]
The material from Canta province has the upper whorls reddish-blue and the specimens are more slender than those shown in the original figure of Weyrauch.[2] However, compared to paratypes (RMNH 55449/5), the shell shape is similar.[2]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]
- Weyrauch W.K. (1967). "Treinta y ocho nuevos gastrópodos terrestres de Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brasil y Perú". Acta Zoologica Lilloana 21: 343-455. page 398, figs 42-44.
- Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
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