Thaumastus flori

Thaumastus flori
apertural and abapertural view of the shell of Thaumastus flori Shell height 65.0 mm.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Megaspiridae
Genus:	Thaumastus
Subgenus:	Thaumastus
Species:	T. flori
Binomial name
Thaumastus flori (Jousseaume, 1897)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Dryptus flori Jousseaume, 1897 Plekocheilus conspicuus Pilsbry, 1932

Thaumastus flori is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Megaspiridae.

Distribution

• southern Ecuador.^[2] The type locality is Machala.^[2]
• Peru^[2]

Description

Variability of shells:

shell of Thaumastus flori. Shell height 64.4 mm.

shell of Thaumastus flori. Shell height 77.6 mm.

See also

• Thaumastus hartwegi (Pfeiffer, 1846) is species with similar shell.

References

1. Jousseaume F. (1897). "Description d’une coquille nouvelle". Le Naturaliste 2e série 11: 265.
2. Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.