Scolodonta rinae Miquel & Bungartz, 2017

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: SCOLODONTINAE

ESPÉCIE: Scolodonta rinae Miquel & Bungartz, 2017

Tamanho médio: 1.4 mm

Distribuição: Equador (Galápagos)

Localidade tipo: Equador, Arquipélago de Galápagos, Ilha de Santa Cruz, “above Mina Granillo Rojo on the N side of the island”

Altitude: 628 m

Nome original: Scolodonta rinae Miquel & Bungartz, 2017

Etimologia: o nome da espécie é uma homenagem à malacologista peruana Rina Ramírez Mesías, renomada especialista em Scolodontidae

Descrição original:

Miquel S.E. & Bungartz F. (2017): “Shell very small, very thin, with 4 brilliantly polished, translucent, olivaceous whorls; spire depressed but slightly rounded; embryonic and adult whorls with suture with well-defined sculpture of numerous radiating, slightly flexuous, indented varices and lines of growth; last whorl evenly rounded, base smooth, convex; with a narrow deep umbilicus, clearly showing all of the coils; aperture oblique, descending, hardly expanded, peristome sharp and thin. Internal wall covered by numerous pustules, more numerous on the columellar wall; the pustules are strongly acuminated. Radula with aciculiform teeth, 20-1-20 (of the ∞–C–∞ type).”

Fotos: (1) Miquel S.E. & Bungartz F. (2017): The Charles Darwin Foundation (ICCDRS), Puerto Ayora, Galápagos: HOLOTYPE de Scolodonta rinae, ICCDRS 40519, coll. S.E. Miquel & F. Bungartz, Equador, Galápagos, Ilha de Santa Cruz, “above Mina Granillo Rojo on the N side of the island, W of the dirt road along the quarry”, 628 m alt, 1.4mm

Figura: Miquel S.E. & Bungartz F. (2017): Scanning electron micrographs de Scolodonta rinae: (A) HOLOTYPE ICCDRS 40519, 1.40mm; (B,C) PARATYPE (ICCDRS 40521): (B) morfologia geral (C) detalhe da protoconcha (1.15 × 0.55 mm, 3 whorls), (D–G) detalhes do PARATYPE ICCDRS 40523

Fontes:

Descrição original: Miquel S.E. & Bungartz F. (2017). Snails found among herbarium specimens of Galapagos lichens and bryophytes, with the description of Scolodonta rinae (Gastropoda: Scolodontidae), a new species of carnivorous micro-mollusk. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 146(1): 173-186., disponível online em https://doi.org/10.1127/arch.moll/146/173-186
página(s): 178, figs 2, 4A- G 

Molluscabase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1023781