Solaropsis alcobacensis Salvador & Simone, 2015

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: SOLAROPSIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Solaropsis alcobacensis Salvador & Simone, 2015

Tamanho médio: 30 – 33 mm

Habitat: vive no solo, sob folhas ou enterrada parte do tempo

Ocorrência: Brasil (Bahia)

Localidade tipo: Brasil, Bahia, município de Alcobaça

Altitude: ~10 m

Nome original: Solaropsis alcobacensis Salvador & Simone, 2015

Etimologia: o nome da espécie é uma referência à localidade tipo

Descrição original:

(Salvador & Simone, 2015): “Shell large, discoid, with flattened spire; shell length ~½ its width. Color white, with single strong light brown spiral band immediately below carina and series of numerous parallel thin light brown dotted spiral bands; 9–10 equidistant bands between carina and umbilicus; space between bands ~3 times their width. Spire angle ~135°.

Protoconch of 1¾ whorl, blunt, smooth; transition to teleoconch clear. Teleoconch sculptured by fine, raised, well-marked and regularly distributed sinuous ribs, increasing below carina. Whorls profile weakly convex; strong peripheral carina, profile angle ~105°, located in superior third of body whorl. Suture shallow but well-marked. Body whorl ~7/8 shell height. Aperture large, oval, with slight angle at the basal region; slightly prosocline (~20° in relation to shell axis); ~¾ shell height, ~½ shell width. Peristome reflected, especially on basal and columellar regions. Umbilicus wide, deep, occupying ~10 % of inferior surface.”

Fotos: (1,2) cortesia Femorale, 2022. TOPOTYPE, 33mm; (3) Salvador & Simone, 2015: Museu de Zoologia de São Paulo, HOLOTYPE MZSP 107964, D = 33.2 mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: Salvador R.B. & Simone L.R.L. (2015). Taxonomical study on a sample of land snails from Alcobaça (Bahia, Brazil), with description of a new species. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A. Neue Serie 8: 1-7.  página(s): 6, figs 13-15

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870604