Plekocheilus bigener Borrero & Breure, 2011

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: AMPHIBULIMIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Plekocheilus bigener Borrero & Breure, 2011

Tamanho médio: 29 – 38 mm

Ocorrência: Colômbia

Localidade tipo: Colômbia, Risaralda, Parque Nacional Natural Tatamá, Cerro Tatamá

Altitude: 3600 – 3770 m

Habitat: a espécie foi encontrada em “páramos” com Espeletia frontinoensis (Asteraceae) e Chusquea tessellata (Poaceae)

Nome original: Plekocheilus (Plekocheilus) bigener Borrero & Breure, 2011

Etimologia: o nome da espécie deriva da palavra em Latim “bigener”, que significa híbrido (hybrid); uma referência à natureza híbrida da escultura da concha, que ocorre nos 2 subgêneros Plekocheilus s. str. e Plekocheilus (Eurytus)

Descrição:

(Borreto & Breure, 2012): “Shell up to 38.2 mm, 1.72 times as high as wide, imperforate, ovate, sides of spire slightly convex, moderately solid. Color light to dark chestnut-brown, with irregular, axial streaks of a lighter color; in lighter colored specimens these streaks are almost yellowish. Upper whorls paler, mostly eroded. Surface somewhat shining, with a very fine malleation and a minute granulation; growth striae irregularly thickened as flat riblets for part of their length, with irregular riblets on the upper whorls. Protoconch eroded. Whorls up to 4.2, slightly convex, the last whorl height 0.87 times the total height, not decidedly swollen; suture impressed, not descending in front. Aperture elongate-ovate, whitish inside, 1.4 times as long as wide, height 0.55 times the shell height. Peristome slightly expanded and reflexed, whitish or pinkish; slightly curved at the insertion to the parietal wall. Columellar margin slightly curved, above with a weak fold entering the aperture; narrowly dilated at the insertion to the parietal wall, which has a thin, whitish callus.”

Fotos: (1) Borrero & Breure, 2011: HOLOTYPE RMNH 125626, van der Hammen leg., 20.i.1983, 38.5mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Plekocheilus (Plekocheilus) bigener Borrero & Breure, 2011) Borrero, F. J.; Breure, A. S. H. (2011). The Amphibulimidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea) from Colombia and adjacent areas. Zootaxa. 3054, 1-59.
page(s): 22, fig. 8J-O, 9D

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1060031