Plekocheilus euryomphalus (Jonas, 1844:36)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) euryomphalus (Jonas, 1844); Eudolichotis euryomphala (Jonas, 1844); Auris (Eudolichotis) euryomphala (Jonas, 1844); Bulimus euryomphalus Jonas, 1844; Bulimus otostomus Pfeiffer, 1855; Plekocheilus (Eudolichotis) otostomus (Pfeiffer, 1855)
Conservation Status
Missing (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017)
Distribution
Venezuela
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
https://www.invertebase.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=974832&clid=0
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Jonas, J. H. (1844). Vorläufige Diagnosen neuer Conchylien welche ausführlicher beschrieben und abgebildet nächstens erscheinen werden. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie 1: 33-37.
Other references:
Arias, Sergio. (1952). Algunos moluscos de la región Baruta-El Hatillo. Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 7: 47-65.
Breure, Abraham S. H. (1979). Systematics, phylogeny and zoogeography of Bulimulinae (Mollusca). Zoologische Verhandelingen 168: 3-200, pl. 1-3.
Breure, Abraham S. H. and Ablett, Jonathan D. (2011). Annotated type catalogue of the Amphibulimidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys 138: 1-52. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.138.1847
Breure, Abraham S. H. and Ablett, Jonathan D. (2015). Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys 470: 17-143. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.470.8548
Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plekocheilus euryomphalus (Jonas, 1844). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1307233 on 2022-03-29
Pfeiffer, L. (1855). Descriptions of fifty-seven new species of Helicea, from Mr. Cuming's collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 22(277) (“1854”): 286–288; 22(278) (“1854”): 289-298.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/23613/eudolichotis-euryomphala
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