Protoglyptus bernicolae Gargominy, 2025

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Protoglyptus bernicolae Gargominy, 2025

Tamanho médio: 6 mm

Habitat: vive no solo, entre a serrapilheira de vegetação dominada por espécies de Lasiacis (Poaceae) (localmente chamadas de “cambrouses”)

Ocorrência: Guiana Francesa (Mont Galbao e Réserve de la Trinité)

Localidade tipo: Guiana Francesa, “Saül, Mont Galbao”

Altitude: 1300 m

Nome original: Protoglyptus bernicolae Gargominy, 2025

Zoobank: https://zoobank.org/4794633F-BE95-4418-9B93-C93A29D6C6FB

Etimologia: o nome da espécie é uma homenagem a Bernard e Nicole Gargominy, pais do autor, “em reconhecimento ao gosto inabalável pela natureza que eles transmitiram”. O nome da espécie é uma contração de ambos os primeiros nomes

Descrição original:

(Gargominy et al. 2025): “Shell of medium size (height 6.0 mm, diameter 5.5 mm), dextral, thin, shiny, medium-spired, conical; colour uniformly brownish, almost subtranslucent. Whorls 4.5, slightly inflated with shallow suture, slightly keeled at the periphery; last whorl descending more rapidly below the periphery of the preceding.

Protoconch one whorl, with sculpture consisting of oblique radial ribs, interstices ~ 3× as wide as the ribs, with very fine spiral striae in between the riblets; protoconch/teleoconch transition distinct because of change in sculpture; surface of teleoconch with sculpture consisting, on the upper part of the whorl, of 6–10 fine spiral rows of periostracal scales expanding to long setae at the periphery of the whorl and shorter setae at the middle of its upper part; on the lower part, ~ 16 fine spiral rows of periostracal scales expanding to shorter setae on three rows; this spiral sculpture on the lower part of the whorl totally disappearing from the aperture into the interior of the shell.

Peristome not formed, simple; aperture oblique, prosocline, crescent-like. Umbilicus very small, punctiform, partially covered by the columellar wall.

Body pale grey, whitish around the head; head brownish, similar to the colour of the shell; upper tentacles elongated, inflated at the tip; eyes black, small, situated on the upper part of the tentacles; lower tentacles with whitish tips. Inner mantle with small white patches visible through the transparency of the shell”

Fotos: (1-3) Gargominy et al. 2025: Protoglyptus bernicolae, HOLOTYPE MNHN-IM-2013-75865, barra da escala: 5 mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: Gargominy, O.; Fontaine, B.; Tercerie, S.; Zuccon, D. (2025). New species and new records of families, genera and species of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from French Guiana. ZooKeys. 1230: 155-194., disponível online em https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1230.133585
página(s): 170, figs 10-11

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1802357