Thaumastus (Thaumastus) loxostomus (Pfeiffer, 1855)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 30-31

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Megaspiridae

Thaumastus (Thaumastus) loxostomus (Pfeiffer, 1855) Figs 26 A–C

Bulimus loxostomus Pfeiffer 1855: 114; Breure and Ablett 2015: 38, figs 5 iv–vi, L11iii.

Thaumastus loxostomus ; Richardson 1995: 378 (references).

Thaumastus (Thaumastus) loxostomus ; Breure and Borrero 2008: 8; Linares and Vera 2012: 206.

Type locality.

"in Andibus Novae Granadae".

Type material.

NHMUK 1975125, one syntype.

Diagnosis.

Shell relatively medium-sized, with creamy ground colour and brownish axial streaks and blotches at irregular distances, suture crenulate, descending in front, ascending at the insertion of the peristome, which is thickened, hardly expanded below and hardly reflexed.

Dimensions.

Shell height 71.3, diameter 37.3 mm.

Distribution.

Ecuador,?Prov. Loja.

Remarks.

This species has not been found since its original publication. Breure and Borrero (2008) assumed this species to be distributed in southern Ecuador, while Linares and Vera (2012) attributed it to the Colombian malacofauna without further evidence.