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
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

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

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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