Plekocheilus (Plekocheilus)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 19

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Amphibulimidae

Subgenus Plekocheilus (Plekocheilus)

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively medium-sized, with axial colour streaks of reddish-brown, partly oblique and zigzag, sculptured with axial riblets, becoming malleated on the last whorl and with a dense pattern of oblong granules behind the lip; aperture ovate, peristome expanded and reflexed.

Distribution.

West Indies, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Venezuela.

Habitat.

The species live in montane and cloud forest in leaf litter, at altitudes of ca. 900-3350 m; the ecology within the study area is unknown.