Systrophiella tepui Roosen & Breure, 2026

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: SCOLODONTIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Systrophiella tepui Roosen & Breure, 2026

Tamanho médio: 5.6 mm

Distribuição: Venezuela (Bolívar), conhecido apenas no Tepui Akopán

Localidade tipo: Venezuela, Estado Bolívar, Chimantá massif, Akopán-tepui

Nome original: Systrophiella tepui Roosen & Breure, 2026

Etimologia: o nome da espécie é uma referência ao tipo de montanha em que a espécie foi encontrada

Zoobank: https://zoobank.org/EditReference/3b265b3f-a228-4fc3-b5db-2f8f32fb5239

Descrição original:

(Roosen & Breure, 2026): “Shell of medium size, strongly depressed conical globular in shape, with a yellow periostracum. Protoconch to teleoconch transition not defined. Sculpture limited, consisting of indistinct straight growthlines, intersected by numerous spiral grooves that are only visible under high magnification. Suture shallow, but noticeably impressed. Aperture subcircular, slightly elongated. Peristome neither thickened nor reflected. Umbilicus medium wide, 18.5% of the total shell diameter.

The body is yellow, with two purple brown streaks that continue from the tip of the eye stalks to the shell when the snail is extended. The images of the living animal are of insufficient quality for further description and the preserved specimens have been degraded beyond being able to study them”

Fotos: (1,2) Roosen, M. T. & Breure, A. S. H. (2026): HOLOTYPE de Systrophiella tepui, RMNH.MOL.641171, Venezuela, Akopán-tepui, J. Schlögl leg., 2015

Fontes:

Descrição original: Roosen, M. T. & Breure, A. S. H. (2026). Two new Scolodontidae from the Pantepui region in Venezuela (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata). Folia Conchyliologica. 77: 1-7.
página(s): 2-4, figs 2-3

Molluscabase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1877158