Plekocheilus (Eurytus) cardinalis (Pfeiffer, 1853)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 10

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Amphibulimidae

Plekocheilus (Eurytus) cardinalis (Pfeiffer, 1853) Figs 2D, 14

Bulimus cardinalis Pfeiffer 1853: 316.

Plekocheilus cardinalis ; Richardson 1995: 306 (references).

Plekocheilus (Plekocheilus) cardinalis ; Köhler 2007: 127, fig. 2; Breure and Borrero 2008: 5.

Plekocheilus (Eurytus) cardinalis ; Borrero and Breure 2011: 44, figs 14A, 15 E–F.

Type locality.

[Ecuador] “Quito”.

Type material.

ZMB 112721 (1), syntype.

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively medium-sized, rather solid, last whorl inflated, surface sculptured with strong, axial and oblique criss-crossing sections, suture somewhat descending in front and slightly ascending behind lip, aperture round-ovate.

Dimensions.

Shell height 46, diameter 32 mm.

Distribution.

Colombia ( Borrero and Breure 2011). Ecuador, Prov. Napo, Nachiyacu; ibid., Topo; Prov. Pastaza, Mera; ibid., Puyo; Prov. Pichincha, Milpe; ibid., near Mindo; ibid., Nanegal ( Breure and Borrero 2008, Borrero and Breure 2011).

Ecoregion.

Northwestern Andean montane forests [NT0145].

Remarks.

This species has been found at ca. 1000-1250 m altitude. The reference of Borrero and Breure (2011) to a lectotype designation by Köhler is erroneous.