CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE
FAMÍLIA: EPIPHRAGMOPHORIDAE
ESPÉCIE: Epiphragmophora birabeni Parodiz, 1955
Tamanho médio: 23 – 26 mm
Ocorrência: Argentina (Catamarca)
Localidade tipo: Argentina, “Catamarca Prov., Quebrada de La Hoyada. R. Schreiter leg., 1936”
Nome original: Epiphragmophora birabeni Parodiz, 1955
Descrição:
(Cuezzo, 2006): “Dextral, helicoidal, globose, translucent, delicate, spire shallowly elevated, medium size, 3 ½ convex whorls, yellowish to golden; peripheral pigmented band in body whorl absent; protoconch smooth; sculpture of teleoconch with delicate axial whitish ribs regularly distributed, more spaced and thicken in body whorl, thin axial undulated or concentric lines between ribs giving the appearance of fingerprints; suture sinuous, well impressed; aperture transverse oval, peristome white, thick, reflexed; body whorl abruptly descending behind aperture; umbilicus deeply perforated and partially overlapped by columelar fold of peristome”
Fotos (1): Montenegro et al. 2024: “Quebrada de La Hoyada, Catamarca”, HOLOTYPE MACN- In 23034, 25.6mm

Figura: Cuezzo, 2006: (A) Epiphragmophora argentina (MACN 913, NEOTYPE), escala = 15 mm; (B) Epiphragmophora audouinii (MNHN, SYNTYPE), escala = 10 mm; (C) Epiphragmophora birabeni (MACN 23034, holotype), escala = 15 mm; (D) Epiphragmophora costellata (MLP 4291, HOLOTYPE), escala = 10 mm
Fontes:
Descrição original: Parodiz, J. J. (1955). Dos nuevas Epiphragmophora de la Argentina. Neotropica. 1(6): 93-95
Cuezzo, M. G. (2006). Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Epiphragmophora Doering from Argentina and southern Bolivia (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Xanthonychidae). Malacologia. 49(1): 121−188.
página(s): 129
Iconografía de moluscos continentales de Argentina: primera parte / Rubén Francisco Montenegro … [et al.], 2024 – 1a edición; Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Fundación de Historia Natural Félix de Azara, 2024
Libro digital, PDF
Molluscabase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1252517