Suniellus coronensis  Breure & Mogollón, 2025

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Suniellus coronensis Breure & Mogollón, 2025

Tamanho médio: 35 mm

Ocorrência: Peru (Cajamarca)

Localidade tipo: Peru, Departamento de Cajamarca, “Hualgayoc Province, Hualgayoc District, Cerro Corona”

Altitude: 3958 m

Nome original: Suniellus coronensis Breure & Mogollón, 2025

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

Zoobank: https://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/e7e03719-fdbe-4eec-809a-3f56c8c055af

Descrição original:

(Mogollón & Breure, 2025): “Shell up to 35.7 mm, 1.75 times as long as wide, elongate, rather thin; imperforate. Sculptured with irregularly spaced, thickened growth-striae, in between with weaker incrassations, and spiral rows of oblong granules, especially on the last two whorls. Protoconch sculptured with axial wrinkles on upper part of the whorl, becoming short granules in different directions on the lower part. Colour yellowish-olivaceus with brownish, axial streaks, especially on the last whorls, becoming dark brown to blackish-brown towards the lip; on the third and fourth whorl a whitish lattice turning into a violet-coloured apex. Whorls 7, somewhat convex, the last one swollen, 0.80 the total length, spire with straight sides; suture well impressed. Aperture 1.36 times as long as wide, 0.54 the total height, inverse ear-shaped, the length axis deviating from the shell axis. Peristome thin, the columellar margin broadly triangular and reflected over the closed umbilicus, parietal callus whitish.”

Fotos: (1,2) Breure, A. S. H. & Mogollón Ávila, V. (2025): The Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, EUA: HOLOTYPE UF 583749, Distrito de Hualgayoc, Cerro Corona, 3958 m, V. Mogollón leg. 19.ii.2018, 34.5mm

Figura: Breure, A. S. H. & Mogollón Ávila, V. (2025): (51-53) diferentes vista do HOLOTYPE; (54-55) detalhes da protoconcha

Figura: Breure, A. S. H. & Mogollón Ávila, V. (2025): (56-57) espécimes vivos na localidade tipo; (58) vista da localidade tipo

Fontes:

Descrição original: Breure, A. S. H. & Mogollón Ávila, V. (2025). Notes on and descriptions of Peruvian Orthalicoidea (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata). Folia Conchyliologica. 76: 7-44.
páginas(s): 28, figs 45-50

MolluscaBase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1836033