Thaumastus Martens in Albers, 1860
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Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Megaspiridae
Genus Thaumastus Martens in Albers, 1860 View in CoL
Bulimulus (Thaumastus) Martens in Albers 1860: 215.
Type species.
Bulimus hartwegi Pfeiffer in Philippi, 1846, by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Shell elongate-ovate to ovate conical, imperforate to rimate, solid, with rather blunt apex. Colour whitish to (mostly) brownish, generally with axial streaks or spiral band(s). Protoconch with axial sculpture. Whorls hardly to slightly convex, aperture generally subovate, peristome simple or hardly expanded.
Distribution.
Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil.
Habitat.
Occurring generally in evergreen forest up to ca. 3000 m, where the species live in the leaf litter layer.
Anatomy.
Pilsbry 1902 [1901-1902]: Thaumastus (Thaumastus) taunaisii ( Férussac, 1822) [g, m, r]; Zilch 1953: Thaumastus (Thaumastiella) koepckei (Zilch, 1953) [g, m, r]; Breure 1978: Thaumastus (Thaumastus) foveolatus (Reeve, 1849) [g, h, r], Thaumastus (Thaumastus) insolitus (Preston, 1909) [g, r], Thaumastus (Thaumastus) sangoae (Tschudi, 1852) [g].
Phylogenetic data.
Breure and Romero 2012: Thaumastus (Thaumastus) achilles (Pfeiffer, 1853), Thaumastus (Thaumastus) largillierti (Philippi, 1845).
Key to the subgenera of Thaumastus in the study area
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