Megalobulimus gummatus

Species of snail

Megalobulimus gummatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Strophocheilidae
Genus: Megalobulimus
Species:
M. gummatus
Binomial name
Megalobulimus gummatus
(Hidalgo, 1870)
Synonyms
  • Bulimus gummatus Hidalgo, 1870 (basionym)
  • Strophocheilus (Megalobulimus) terrestris gummatus (Hidalgo, 1870) (superseded rank and combination)

Megalobulimus gummatus is a species of snail in the family Strophocheilidae found in Brazil.[1]

It was originally described from Rio de Janeiro in 1870 as Builimus gummatus.[2] Shells are usually around 110 mm long and 70 mm wide.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Megalobulimus gummatus (Hidalgo, 1870)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Molluscabase - Megalobulimus gummatus (Hidalgo, 1870)". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  3. ^ Fontenelle, José Heitzmann; Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.; Cavallari, Daniel Caracanhas (31 May 2021). "Megalobulimus dryades, a new species from the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil, and redescription of Megalobulimus gummatus (Gastropoda: Strophocheilidae)". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 61: e20216144. doi:10.11606/1807-0205/2021.61.44. ISSN 0031-1049.
  • Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Grafíca Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo, 390 pp.
  • Hidalgo, J.G. (1870). Catalogue des coquilles terrestres recueillies par les naturalistes de la Commission Scientifique espagnole sur divers points de l'Amérique méridionale. Journal de Conchyliologie. 18(1): 27-70
  • Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065.


Taxon identifiers
Megalobulimus gummatus
  • Wikidata: Q106291390
  • CoL: 7S3HW
  • GBIF: 10710017
  • iNaturalist: 741567
  • WoRMS: 1448824


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