CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE
FAMÍLIA: ACHATINIDAE
ESPÉCIE: Rhodea crosseana S. I. Da Costa, 1899
Tamanho médio: 30 mm
Ocorrência: Colômbia (Cauca)
Localidade tipo: Colômbia, “department Valle de Cauca, Río Dagua valley, western side of the Cordillera Occidental, NW of Cali”
Nome original: Rhodea crosseana S. I. Da Costa, 1899
Comentários: (1) De acordo com Pilsbry (1906: 235) o gênero Rhodea é vivíparo; (2) espécie pouco conhecida, o único espécime é subadulto, com a abertura quebrada
Descrição:
(Pilsbry, 1906: 237): “Shell cylindric, slowly narrowing towards the apex, subpellucid, corneous. Whorls 13, the upper 3 or 4 smooth, convex, the following 2 or 3 convex, the rest nearly flat, obliquely delicately and closely striate, separated by an oblique suture which is carinate in the last few whorls; last whorl acutely carinated, deeply excavated below the carina. Aperture irregularly quadrate, bicanaliculate; columella spirally twisted, ascending within, forming an umbilicus penetrating nearly to the apex; lip thin, angular in the middle, channelled, concave below.”
Fotos: (1) Grego J., Šteffek J. & Infante A.P. (2007): Natural History Museum, London: HOLOTYPE de Rhodea crosseana S. I. Da Costa, 1899, NHMUK 1896.2.1.4, “Colombia: department Valle de Cauca, Río Dagua valley, western side of the Cordillera Occidental, NW of Cali, leg. W.F.H. Rosenberg

Figura: Grego J., Šteffek J. & Infante A.P. (2007):
(20) Rhodea gigantea Mousson, 1873, SYNTYPE 1, “Bogota, Colombia”, H=56mm, ZMZ 11855, foto Juerg Stauffer;
(21) Rhodea moussoni Grego, Šteffek & Infante, 2007, HOLOTYPE, Ocana, Colômbia, H=33,5 mm, ZMZ, foto Juerg Stauffer;
(22) Rhodea crosseana Da Costa, 1899, HOLOTYPE, Vale do Río Dagua, Colômbia, H=30,0 mm, NHMUK 1896.2.1.14, foto Phil Crabb
Fontes:
Descrição original: Da Costa, S. I. (1899). Remarks on the shells of the genus Rhodea, with descriptions of two new species from South America, and the description of Papuina chilochroa, n. sp., from British New Guinea. Proceeding of the Malacological Society of London. 3: 304-306, text-figs. 3-6., disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32075667
página(s): 305, fig. 5
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. 19, figs 9-10, 15
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=1427814