Scutalus macedoi

Scutalus macedoi is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.

Scutalus macedoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Scutalus
Species:
S. macedoi
Binomial name
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]

  1. 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.
  2. 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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