Cyclodontina Beck, 1837

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 36

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Odontostomidae

Genus Cyclodontina Beck, 1837

Pupa (Cyclodontina) Beck 1837: 88.

Type species.

Pupa inflata Wagner, 1827, by subsequent designation (Pilsbry 1901 [1901-1902]: 58).

Diagnosis.

Shell elongate-ovate to subfusiform, rimate, thin to rather solid, glossy, height up to ca. 22 mm (study area), groundcolour whitish to tawny, whorls slightly convex, protoconch with delicately radially costulae, later with fine, irregular, radial wrinkles and wavy spiral striae, aperture irregularly ovate, only slightly oblique, with 4-5 teeth, parietal lamella thin, rather short, columellar lamella spirally ascending, baso-palatal wall with 2-3 short plicae, upper sometimes absent, peristome thin, a little reflexed (modified after Schileyko 1999).

Distribution.

Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina,?Uruguay, Brazil.

Habitat.

Insufficient data available.

Anatomy.

Breure and Schouten 1985: Cyclodontina tudiculata (Martens, 1868) [g].

Phylogenetic data.

Breure and Romero 2012: Cyclodontina guarani ( d’Orbigny, 1835).