Suniellus adriani Breure, 2011

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Suniellus adriani Breure, 2011

Tamanho médio: 32 mm

Ocorrência: Equador

Localidade tipo: Equador, Província de Pichincha, “San Diego Cuchu”

Nome original: Suniellus adriani Breure, 2011

Etimologia: o nome da espécie é uma homenagem a Adrián González, malacologista cubano que vive em Quito, Equador, como “reconhecimento a suas contribuições à malacologia Neotropical”

Zoobank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B2AF1109-5F1F-41CE-A02C-4A7308AFF2D7

Descrição original:

(Breure, 2011): “Shell 32.5 mm, 1.86 times as long as wide, elongate-ovate, with hardly convex sides, imperforate; very thin. Colour yellowish-olivaceus with brownish streaks, especially on last whorl. Upper whorls lighter in colour. Surface rather shining, with irregularly spaced, thickened growth striae, in between with weaker incrassations and, especially at upper part of last whorl, some oblong granules. Protoconch eroded, but on the dorsal side traces visible of axial wrinkles, partly anastomosing. Whorls 5.7, hardly convex, the last 0.81 times total shell height, a little saccate; suture well impressed. Aperture elongate-ovate, 0.54 times shell height, approx. 1.4 times as long as wide, with a pearly lustre inside. Peristome thin and simple, columella thread-like, somewhat dilated above and appressed at the transition to the parietal wall, which bears a hardly noticeable callus.”

Fotos: (1) nd

Figura: Breure, 2011: (A-B) Stenostylus perturbatus, HOLOTYPE RBINS/MT698 (H=56.5 mm); (C–E) Suniellus adriani, HOLOTYPE RBINS/MT2378 (H=32.5mm)

Fontes:

Descrição original: Breure, A. S. H. (2011). Annotated type catalogue of the Orthalicoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the Royal Belgian Institute of Sciences, Brussels, with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys. 101: 1-50., disponível online em https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.101.1133
página(s): 45, fig. 17 C-E

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): 177-178, fig. 239

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1060002