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

Description

Variability of shells:

shell of Thaumastus flori. Shell height 64.4 mm.
shell of Thaumastus flori. Shell height 77.6 mm.

See also

References

  1. Jousseaume F. (1897). "Description d’une coquille nouvelle". Le Naturaliste 2e série 11: 265.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
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