Clathrorthalicus phoebus (Pfeiffer, 1863)

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 phoebus (Pfeiffer, 1863) Figs 39 A–C

Bulimus phoebus Pfeiffer 1863: 274; Breure and Ablett 2015: 44, figs 7 iii–v, L15iv.

Plekocheilus phoebus ; Richardson 1995: 318 (references).

Plekocheilus (Eurytus) phoebus ; Breure and Borrero 2008: 6.

Type locality.

“Ecuador”.

Type material.

NHMUK 1975143, lectotype ( Breure 1979: 30).

Diagnosis.

Shell ovate, creamy ground colour with few axial streaks and spots of russet-brown, on the last whorls a lighter subsutural band is visible, indistinctly sculptured with growth striae, suture hardly ascending behind the lip, aperture with well expanded and reflexed peristome.

Dimensions.

Shell height 30.5, diameter 17.5 mm.

Distribution.

Ecuador, without precise locality.

Remarks.

This species strongly resembles Clathrorthalicus corydon (Crosse, 1869), being only slightly smaller. Upon further studies both taxa may prove to be synonyms.