Scholvienia claritae (Strebel, 1910)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 63

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Orthalicidae

Scholvienia claritae (Strebel, 1910) Figs 65G, 67

Thomsenia claritae Strebel 1910: 27, pl. 2 fig. 16.

Thaumastus claritae ; Richardson 1995: (references).

Thaumastus (Scholvienia) claritae ; Ramírez et al. 2003: 282.

Type locality.

"Chanchamayo, Peru".

Type material.

Not located, see remarks.

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively large, and slender (height/diameter ratio 2.3), uniformly “kaffee-braun”.

Dimensions.

Shell height 61.2, diameter 28.0 mm.

Distribution.

Peru, Dept. Junín, Chanchamayo valley.

Ecoregion.

Peruvian Yungas [NT0153].

Remarks.

This species, described from a single, (supposedly subadult) shell in the O. Semper collection, was used by Strebel to erect a monotypic subgenus Thomsenia . Breure (1979: 46) pointed out that the type material was probably lost during World War 2, and treated this taxon as nomen inquirendum. He suggested it might belong to Scholvienia . Strebel (1910: 26) said both protoconch and teleoconch sculpture were the same as in Scholvienia porphyria (Pfeiffer, 1847), Scholvienia jaspidea (Morelet, 1863), Scholvienia jelskii (Lubomirski, 1880), Scholvienia iserni (Philippi, 1867), and Scholvienia huancabambensis Strebel, 1910. Therefore. we fail to see the need for a separate subgenus, and Thomsenia is now considered a junior subjective synonym of Scholvienia Strebel, 1910 (syn. n.).