CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE
FAMÍLIA: ACHATINIDAE
ESPÉCIE: Rhodea cousini Jousseaume, 1900
Tamanho médio: 40 mm
Ocorrência: Equador (Pichincha)
Localidade tipo: Equador, Província de Pichincha, Río Guaillabamba
Nome original: Rhodea cousini Jousseaume, 1900
Comentários: De acordo com Pilsbry (1906: 235) o gênero Rhodea é vivíparo
Descrição:
(Pilsbry, 1906: 238): “Shell narrowly and very deeply umbilicate, worm shaped, collared anteriorly with an acute spiral keel, rather thin, corneous buff, obliquely wavy striate, the apex smooth, obtusely conoid. Whorls 14, the first a little convex, the following ones flat, the rest excavated, parted by a straight carina at the suture, this carina median on the last whorl, which is excavated below it. Aperture suboblique, triangular, margin simple, columella thickened, arcuate, reaching to the base, forming a channel with the base margin.”
Fotos: (1) Grego J., Šteffek J. & Infante A.P. (2007): Museu Nacional de História Natural, Paris, HOLOTYPE de Rhodea cousini, MNHN MOLL 4636, “NW Equador, Pichincha prov., Río Guaillabamba”, leg. Cousin, 40.4mm

Figura: Grego J., Šteffek J. & Infante A.P. (2007): (16-18) Rhodea aequatoria Da Costa, 1899; 16, LECTOTYPE, Paramba, Equador, 21.8 mm, NHMUK 19071121144/1, foto: Phil Crabb; (17) PARALECTOTYPE, mesma localidade que (16), H=22.5 mm, NHMUK 19071121144/2, foto: Phil Crabb; (18) HOLOTYPE de Rhodea equatorensis Jousseaume, 1900, Equador, H=15.5 mm, Museu Nacional de História Natural, MNHN 4637, foto: Delphine Brabant; (19) Rhodea cousini Jousseaume, 1900, HOLOTYPE, Guallabamba, Equador, H=40.4 mm, MNHN 4636, foto: Delphine Brabant
Fontes:
Descrição original: Jousseaume, F. (1900). Mollusques terrestres. Clausilia, Rhodea et Bulimus Sud-Americanae. Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris, ser. 9. 2(1): 5-44., disponível online em https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31964296
página(s): 36, pl. 1 fig. 15
Grego J., Šteffek J. & Infante A.P. (2007). Review of the genus Rhodea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Subulinidae) with description of two new species from Colombia. Basteria. 71: 13-28.
página(s): 23, figs 19
Breure, A. S. H., Roosen, M. T. & Ablett, J. D. (2022). Land and freshwater molluscs of mainland Ecuador: an illustrated checklist. Iberus. 40(1): 1-290.
página(s):98, figs. 119D-F, 125
Pilsbry, H.A., 1906, 1907. Achatinidae: Stenogyrinae and Coeliaxinae (part.). — Manual of Conchology (second series: Pulmonata) 18: 161-272 (1906), 273-357 (1907). Philadelphia
MolluscaBase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1427783