Orthalicus capax (Pilsbry, 1930)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: ORTHALICIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Orthalicus capax (Pilsbry, 1930)

Tamanho médio: 42 mm

Habitat: vive em árvores e arbustos

Ocorrência: Brasil (Rio Grande do Norte)

Localidade tipo: Ceará Mirim, Rio Grande do Norte

Nome original: Oxystyla capax Pilsbry, 1930

Descrição original:

(Pilsbry, 1930): “The ovate shell is decidedly more ventricose than 0. puilehella prototypus, with shorter spire and larger aperture; rather thin. Ground color dull white, with some of the very thin, glossy pale buff periostracum remaining on the last half of the last whorl; the vinaceous-slate streaks are intensified and spread to form spots at the positions of the three bands. Apex marked with a blackish-brown spot.

Most adult specimens show one narrow dark varix-streak in front and two or three on the back. The surface shows microscopic spiral striae, close, irregular and waved, where the periostracum is preserved. The aperture is large, about 65 percent of the length of the shell, strongly oblique, the lip with blackish-brown border. Columella whitish, slightly curved. The parietal wall has a weak wash of chestnut color.”

Fotos: (3) The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia: HOLOTYPE de Oxystyla capax Pilsbry 1930, ANSP 15136, doado por Fred Baker em 19.05.1930, proveniente de Ceará Mirim, Rio Grande do Norte, encontrado em “quantidade abundante e em estivação em troncos e nos galhos baixos de árvores”; (4) Senckenberg Natural History Museum, Frankfurt: SMF 181957, Ceará-Mirim, Rio Grande do Norte, 44.7mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Oxystyla capax Pilsbry, 1930)  Pilsbry, H. A. (1930). South American land and freshwater mollusks. Notes and description, 7. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 82: 355-365.
página(s): 359, pl. 28, figs 12-14

Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Gráfica Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo, 390 pp. página(s): 156

MolluscaBase:  https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1446884