Epiphragmophora tucumanensis (Doering, 1875)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: EPIPHRAGMOPHORIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Epiphragmophora tucumanensis (Doering, 1875)

Tamanho médio: 29.6 – 33.7 mm

Ocorrência: Argentina (Cordoba, Santiago del Estero, San Luis, Catamarca, La Rioja, Chaco and Formosa), Bolívia

Localidade tipo: Argentina, Tucumán, “[en la pendiente del Oeste de la Sierra de Tucumán, en bosques exuberantes, a 500−900 mts. de altura]. Stelzner leg. Doering det”

Habitat: Sob ou abaixo de troncos de árvores ou sob rochas

Nome original: Helix estella var. tucumanensis Doering, 1875

Sinônimos: Helicigona catamarcana Ihering, 1910 

Descrição:

(Cuezzo, 2006): “Dextral, helicoidal, globose, solid; elevated conical spire; medium to large size; 4 ¾ to 5 convex whorls; color variable from yellowish to dark brown; presence of single thick supraequatorial, dark brown, even, band most notable in body whorl periphery; protoconch smooth; teleoconch with axial ridges, surface of body whorl strongly malleated to reticulated; suture deep impressed; aperture subcircular to ovoid; peristome whitish, thick, reflexed; some specimens with basal lip thickened; body whorl distinctly descending towards aperture;
umbilicus narrow, partly overlapped by margins of peristomal lips”

Fotos: (1): Montenegro et al. 2024: Cuesta del Clavillo, Tucumán, 29.6 mm

Figura: Cuezzo, 2006: (A) Epiphragmophora tucumanensis (SKF 7711, LECTOTYPE), escala da barra = 10 mm; (B) Epiphragmophora trenquelleonis (SMF 7708, LECTOTYPE), escala da barra = 10 mm; (C) Epiphragmophora variegata (FML 290 a, HOLOTYPE), escala da barra = 15 mm; (D) Epiphragmophora villavilensis (MACN 383, HOLOTYPE), 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): 163

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
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Molluscabase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1252599