Quechua 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 : 56-57

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Orthalicidae

Genus Quechua Strebel, 1910

Thaumastus (Quechua) Strebel 1910: 17.

Type species.

Bulimus salteri Sowerby III, 1890, by original designation.

Description. Shell elongate-ovate, imperforate or rimate, rather solid, up to ca. 50-100 mm, groundcolour flesh-coloured to yellowish with dark brown longitudinal streaks, upper whorls pale, apex sunken, protoconch with axial riblets and wrinkles, more or less anastomosing, teleoconch with growth striae and (usually light) spiral impressions, aperture elongate-ovate, peristome thin and simple.

Distribution.

Peru.

Habitat.

The species live in montane forests at 800-ca. 3000 m.

Anatomy.

Zilch 1953: Quechua salteri (Sowerby III, 1890) [g, m, r]; Breure 1978: Quechua taulisensis (Zilch, 1953) [g, h, r].

Remarks.

Breure and Ablett (2015: 20) elevated this group as separate genus and tentatively placed it in the family Orthalicidae . Further studies are needed to corroborate this position.