Epiphragmophora tomsici D. Fernández & Rumi, 1984

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: EPIPHRAGMOPHORIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Epiphragmophora tomsici D. Fernández & Rumi, 1984

Tamanho médio: 24 – 27 mm

Ocorrência: Argentina (Catamarca)

Localidade tipo: Argentina, Catamarca, “Dept. Andalgalá, 20 km from Andalgalá, road to Cafayate, 1,800 m, 26/II/1962, W.
Weyrauch Col.”

Habitat: Epiphragmophora tomsici é encontrada em ambientes xerofílicos, geralmente escondida em fendas de rochas ou sob cactus caídos

Nome original: Epiphragmophora tomsici D. Fernández & Rumi, 1984

Descrição:

(Cuezzo, 2025): “Dextral, helicoidal, globose, solid; spire shallow conic, with thin axial growth lines; medium size with 4 ½ convex whorls; light brown to light chestnut; peripheral band absent; protoconch smooth; axial whitish ribs regularly distributed on body whorl; surface between ribs in body whorl strongly malleated, forming distinctive white reticulated pattern; suture well impressed; aperture transverse oval; peristome white, thick, reflexed; parietal callus usually raised, whitish, thin; parietal space between lips narrow; body whorl abruptly descending towards aperture; umbilicus open partly overlapped by peristomal lip”

Fotos: (1,2): Montenegro et al. 2024: (1) Vipos, Tucumán, 26.1 mm; (2) Cuesta Mina Capillitas, Catamarca, 25.8 mm

Figura: Cuezzo, 2006:  (A) Epiphragmophora saltana (NHM, HOLOTYPE); (B) Epiphragmophora tomsici (FML 530, HOLOTYPE); (C) Epiphragmophora trifasciata (MACN 24406, HOLOTYPE); (D) Epiphragmophora trigrammephora (MNHN, SYNTYPE), escala da barra = 15 mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: nd

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): 151

Cuezzo MG. 2025. Epiphragmophora trifasciata. En: Libro Rojo de Moluscos Argentinos: Categorización de la Malacofauna según su Estado de Conservación -1ra ed.-. Puerto Madryn: Asociación Argentina de Malacología – ASAM. pp. 252—255

Molluscabase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1252595