Suniellus tufinoensis  Breure & Roosen, 2025

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Suniellus tufinoensis Breure & Roosen, 2025

Tamanho médio: 34 mm

Ocorrência: Equador (Carchi)

Habitat: Ecorregião do Páramo do Norte dos Andes, Reserva Ecológica El Ángel

Localidade tipo: Equador, Província de Carchi, Vulcão Chiles, Paramo Tufiño

Altitude: 3669 m

Nome original: Suniellus tufinoensis Breure & Roosen, 2025

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

Zoobank: urn: lsid:zoobank.org:act:111B8099-F0D4-42AB-B76C-2BF98CEB663B

Descrição original:

(Breure & Roosen, 2025): “Shell height 34.3 mm, 1.55 times as long as wide, ovate, with hardly convex sides, imperforate, thin. Colour yellowish-olivaceus with streaks of brownish, especially behind the lip on the last whorl. Upper whorls lighter, the apex worn and whitish.

Surface rather shining, with irregularly spaced, thickened growth striae, in between with weaker incrassations and crossed by indistinct spiral lines, forming oblong granules. Protoconch eroded, with some traces of axial wrinkles, partly anastomosing.

Whorls 5, hardly convex, the last 0.85 times total shell height, well rounded; suture impressed, slightly descending in front. Aperture ovate, 0.57 times shell height, 1.5 times as long as wide, a pearly glow inside near the aperture. Peristome thin and simple, unexpanded, in lateral view straight; columella thread-like, hardly dilated above”

Fotos: (1,2) Breure & Roosen, 2025: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE): HOLOTYPE QCAZI-278701 (dry shell), coletado na localidade tipo, leg. L. Camacho, 19.iv.2014, 34.3mm

Figura: Breure & Roosen, 2025: HOLOTYPE de Suniellus tufinoensis, QCAZI-278701, 34.3mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: Breure, [A. S. H.] & Roosen, M. (2025). A new species of Suniellus Breure, 1978 from the páramo in northern Ecuador (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Bulimulidae). Revista Ecuatoriana de Medicina y Ciencias Biológicas. 46(1): 48-53.
página(s): 50, fig. 2, disponível online em RESEARCHGATE

MolluscaBase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1838648