Plectostylus punctulifer (Sowerby I, 1833)

Araya, Juan Francisco & Catalan, Ricardo, 2014, A review of the non-bulimulid terrestrial Mollusca from the Region of Atacama, northern Chile, ZooKeys 398, pp. 33-51 : 37

Plectostylus punctulifer (Sowerby I, 1833) Figs 3.15-3.18, Table 2

Bulinus punctulifer Sowerby I, 1833: 36. Bulimus punctulifer : Reeve 1849: Pl. 16, fig. 92; Hidalgo 1870: 118.

Bulimulus (Plectostylus) punctulifer : Pilsbry 1897: 317, pl. 26, figs 67-69; Pl. 8, fig. 27; Breure 1979: 90. Plectostylus punctulifer : Stuardo and Vega 1985: 136; Valdovinos and Stuardo 1988: 135, figs 86-88, pl. 1, figs 1-3; Köhler 2007: 142, fig. 74. Bulimulus (Plectostylus) punctulifer : Breure and Ablett 2012: 33, figs 5 A–B, 5i.

Material examined.

Fray Jorge National Park (30°40'S, 71°40'W), Region of Coquimbo, July 2006, RCG (unnumbered), 3 specimens.

Diagnosis.

This elongated Plectostylus species has a thin and somewhat fusiform shell, with an acute, long spire and five slightly convex whorls, sculptured with minute granules and growth lines. The aperture is narrow and descending, somewhat expanded in the anterior side. Periostracum is thin, opaque and yellowish.

Distribution and remarks.

Valdovinos and Stuardo (1988) cited this species from Paposo (25°05'S, 70°25'W) to Huasco. This species was not found in the area under current study.