Sultana (Metorthalicus) fraseri (Pfeiffer, 1858)

Breure, Abraham S. H. & Avila, Valentin Mogollon, 2016, Synopsis of Central Andean Orthalicoid land snails (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora), excluding Bulimulidae, ZooKeys 588, pp. 1-199 : 69

Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Orthalicidae

Sultana (Metorthalicus) fraseri (Pfeiffer, 1858) Figs 72 A–B, 76 A–B, 80

Bulimus fraseri Pfeiffer 1858: 239; Pfeiffer 1860: 137, pl. 51 fig. 5; Breure and Ablett 2015: 31, figs 19 i–ii, L7iii.

Orthalicus fraseri brevispira Pilsbry 1899: 194, pl. 46 figs 34-35.

Sultana fraseri ; Richardson 1993: 123 (references, synonymy).

Sultana (Trachyorthalicus) fraseri ; Breure and Borrero 2008: 26.

Type locality.

"in provincia Cuenca reipublicae Aequatoris".

Type material.

NHMUK 20140083, lectotype ( Breure and Schouten 1985: 28).

Additional material.

ANSP 78573, holotype of Orthalicus fraseri brevispira Pilsbry.

Diagnosis.

Shell with yellowish ground colour and very narrow, interrupted, longitudinal dark brown stripes, especially on last whorl, and up to five spiral bands crossed by sinuous markings, peristome white, parietal callus and upper part of columellar margin lilac-whitish.

Dimensions.

Shell height 88.9, diameter 45.0 mm.

Distribution.

Ecuador, Prov. Azuay, near Cuenca; Prov. Loja ( Strebel 1909: 154, as forma brevispira ; no specific locality mentioned); ibid., Malacatos (USNM 316083); Prov. Morona-Santiago, Gualaquiza ( Breure and Borrero 2008).

Ecoregion.

Eastern Cordillera real montane forests [NT0121].

Remarks.

Evidently related to Sultana augusti (Jousseaume, 1887) and Sultana yatesi (Pfeiffer, 1855).