Thaumastus (Thaumastus) blanfordianus (Ancey, 1903)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 26

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scientific name	Thaumastus (Thaumastus) blanfordianus (Ancey, 1903)
status

Treatment

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Megaspiridae

Thaumastus (Thaumastus) blanfordianus (Ancey, 1903) View in CoL Figs 21 A–B, 35

Bulimulus blanfordianus Ancey 1903: 90; Wood and Gallichan 2008: 29; Breure 2011: 16, figs 4 C–D.

Thaumastus blanfordianus ; Richardson 1995: 373 (references).

Type locality.

"Iquico, Bolivia, 3500 m".

Type material.

RBINS/MT1865, lectotype ( Breure 2011: 16).

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively small, uniformly dark brown coloured on the last whorl, the spire paler, whorls rather convex, suture crenulate, surface sculptured with spirally incised lines, strongest on the penultimate whorl, crossing the incrassate growth lines, columellar margin broadly dilated above.

Dimensions.

Shell height 52.5, diameter 25.1 mm.

Distribution.

Bolivia, Dept. La Paz, Ikiko.

Ecoregion.

Bolivian montane dry forests [NT0206].

Remarks.

This species is known from the type material only.