Clathrorthalicus magnificus (Pfeiffer, 1848)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 42

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Orthalicidae

Clathrorthalicus magnificus (Pfeiffer, 1848) Figs 40 A–B

Achatina magnifica Pfeiffer 1848a: 232; Breure and Ablett 2015: 38, figs 7 i–ii, L11iv.

Hemibulimus magnificus ; Richardson 1993: 71 (references).

Hemibulimus (Hemibulimus) magnificus ; Breure and Borrero 2008: 29.

Type locality.

"Quito, Ecuador".

Type material.

NHMUK 20100508, two syntypes.

Diagnosis.

Shell very thin, ground colour creamy-pink with somewhat undulating, axial streaks of brown and on the last whorl two spiral bands with arrow-like (<<) blotches, aperture elongate-ovate, with truncate-sprouted base, very thin and simple peristome.

Dimensions.

Shell height 46.6, diameter 23.0 mm.

Distribution.

Ecuador, without precise locality.

Remarks.

This species is only known by the type material, which may prove to be subadult as the aperture is not rounded and the peristome not expanded like in the other two species.