Naesiotus tortuganus (Dall, 1893)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Naesiotus tortuganus (Dall, 1893)

Tamanho médio: 12 mm 

Ocorrência: Ilha de Santa Cruz, Arquipélago de Galápagos, Equador

Localidade tipo: “La Tortuga, grassy zone, South Albermale”

Nome original: Bulimulus (Naesiotus) tortuganus Dall, 1893

Descrição original:

(Dall, 1893): “Shell small, solid, moderately elongated with six and a half whorls ; the earlier whorls subtranslucent madder brown with a pale peripheral stripe, more or less silky and sculptured with very fine spiral lines ;, sutures very distinct ; later whorls malleated, wrinkled or pecked; rude, fleshy white, with a variably large perforate umbilicus ; aperture small, with a lump on the pillar and another within the middle of the outer lip; lips thickened, white, slightly reflected, the throat brownish, body with a thin, transparent callus. Lon. of shell 12, of aperture 5-5; max. diam. of shell 7 mm.”

Fotos: (1-3) Naesiotus tortuganus (Dall, 1893): Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, SYNTYPE USNM 107305, “La Tortuga, South Albermale, found on the high grass of the upper region”, coletor: Baur, G.

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Bulimulus (Naesiotus) tortuganus Dall, 1893) Dall, W. H. (1893). Preliminary notice of new species of land-shells from the Galápagos Is., collected by Dr. G. Baur. The Nautilus. 7(5): 52–56., disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43044435
página(s): 54

Breure, A. S. H. & Coppois, G. (1978). Notes on the genus Naesiotus Albers, 1850 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bulimulidae). Netherlands Journal of Zoologie. 28 (2): 161-192

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1758468