Keranella prisca (Thiele, 1927)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: SCOLODONTIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Keranella prisca (Thiele, 1927)

Tamanho médio: ~5 mm

Habitat: vive no solo, sob folhas ou enterrada parte do tempo

Ocorrência: Rio Grande do Sul

Localidade tipo: “Taquara do Mundo Novo” (atual município de Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul)

Nome original: Martinella prisca Thiele, 1927

Redescrição:

(Roosen, Salvador & Breure, 2025): “Shell small, width c. 5 mm, lenticular, with a step-like spire. Whorls 5, tightly coiled, with an angulation forming a shoulder. Suture well marked. Protoconch 2½ whorls, smooth, with abrupt transition to teleoconch. Teleoconch sculptured by strong, regularly spaced, prosocline ribs that extend from the whorl angulation to the suture; faint ribbing present immediately around umbilicus. Aperture narrow, rectangular, with single basal/palatal barrier.”

Fotos: (1) Roosen, Salvador & Breure, 2025: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: HOLOTYPE ZMB 109742

Fontes:

Descrição original: Thiele, J. (1927). Über einige brasilianische Landschnecken. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 40 (3): 307-329, pl. 26. Frankfurt am Main

Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Gráfica Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo, 390 pp.
página(s): 194

Roosen, Salvador & Breure, 2025. Revision of the genera of Scolodontidae, part 3: Entodina Ancey, 1887, Keranella gen. nov., Martinella Jousseaume, 1887, †Patagocharopa Miquel & P.E. Rodriguez, 2016, Polygyratia Gray, 1847, Ridleyconcha Christensen, 2020, Smenodonta gen. nov., Systrophia L. Pfeiffer, 1855, and Zilchistrophia Weyrauch, 1960. Journal of Conchology. Vol. 45, no. 3

Brown, K. (2023). A guide to the hunter shells. Vol. 2. The Streptaxoidea. The Enneinae, Orthogibbinae, Marconiinae, Odontartemoninae, Streptaxinae and the Diapheridae. ConchBooks, Germany.
página: 327

Jousseaume F. (1887). Mollusques nouveaux de la République de l’Equateur. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. 12: 165-186., disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36024074
página(s): 173, pl. 3 fig. 14 (descrição Martinella martinella)

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1448272