Naesiotus bambamarcaensis

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Naesiotus bambamarcaensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Naesiotus
Species:
N. bambamarcaensis
Binomial name
Naesiotus bambamarcaensis
Weyrauch, 1960 [1]

Naesiotus bambamarcaensis is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae. [2]

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Distribution

The type locality is Cerro Machaipungo near Bambamarca. [3] Breure (2010) [3] have published another locality Chalamarca 06°29’29’S 078°28’07’W, Cajamarca Region, Peru, that is about 20 km SSW from the type locality. [3]

Description

The specimens from the Chalamarca locality are slightly smaller than the holotype and vary in their dimensions, but otherwise show the colour pattern characteristic for this species, viz. corneous-brown with a whitish spiral band at the periphery of the last whorl. [3]

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References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [3]

  1. Weyrauch W. K. (1960). "Zwanzig neue Landschnecken aus Peru". Archiv für Molluskenkunde89: 23-48. page 37, pl. 6, fig. 38
  2. Naesiotus (Naesiotus) bambamarcaensis Weyrauch, 1960· accepted, alternate representation
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine .