Naesiotus spirifer (Gabb, 1868)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Naesiotus spirifer (Gabb, 1868)

Tamanho médio: 41 – 46 mm

Ocorrência: México (Baja California)

Localidade tipo: Baja California, “found in the mountains, among rocks from San Antonio, below La Paz, to near San Borja, and in the highest mountains perhaps even farther north”

Nome original: Bulimus spirifer Gabb, 1868

Sinônimos: Bulimulus lapidivagus Mabille, 1895; Rabdotus (Leptobyrsus) spirifer (Gabb, 1868)

Descrição original:  

(Gabb, 1868) “Shell slender, tapering, minutely perforate; spire high ; whorls seven, rounded; suture slightly impressed ; aperture broadly ovate, slightly oblique and subangulated above; peristome broadly expanded, thickest on the outer lip, continued on the body whorl by a plate which becomes a heavy callus in old shells, columella having a very prominent spiral fold in the middle; umbilicus small; color, a delicate whitish horn color, lip white ; surface sculptured by irregularly undulating lines of growth crossed by numerous revolving impressed lines, only visible under a magnifier.”

Fotos: (1,2) cortesia Femorale, 2015, Baja California, 41.1 e 45.7 mm respectivamente; (3) University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: UMMZ 123912, Bryant Walker Collection, coletado por Hassler, F. A., 1938

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Bulimulus lapidivagus Mabille, 1895) Mabille, J. (1895). Mollusques de la Basse Californie recueillis par M. Diguet. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. ser. 8, 7: 54-76., disponível online em https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31967279
página(s): 66

Descrição original: (como Bulimus spirifer Gabb, 1868) Gabb, W. M. (1868). Description of new species of land shells from lower California. American Journal of Conchology. 3(3): 235-238, pl. 16. [“1867”; 2 January 1868]., disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6658974
página(s): 236, pl. 16, fig. 5

Thompson, F. G. (2011). An annotated checklist and bibliography of the land and freshwater snails of México and Central America. Florida Museum of Natural History Bulletin. 50(1): 1-299

MolluscaBase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1064269