Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Urocoptoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
Superordo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
Subordo: Helicina
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Urocoptoidea

Familia: Epirobiidae
Genus: Epirobia
Species: Epirobia subsulca

Name

  • Epirobia subsulca Thompson, 2012: 183, figs 11A–C
Holotype: UF 221476; collected by Fred G. Thompson, Steven P. Christman and J. Malcolm Pierson, 19 March, 1994.
Type locality: HONDURAS, Dept. Olancho, Agalta National Park, limestone ridge 6 km NW of Catacamas, ca. 14.88ºN, 85.92ºW, 1300 m alt.
Etymology: The species name subsulca is from the Latin, sub-, less, and sulcus, a furrow, and alludes to the shallow sulcus formed below the periphery in the last whorl.

References

  • Thompson, F.G. 2012: The land snail genus Epirobia and allied genera in México and Central America, with the description of a new family, the Epirobiidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Urocoptoidea). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(3): 167-215. PDF Reference page. 
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