Megalobulimus gummatus explained

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

• Simone, L. R. L. (2006). Land and Freshwater Molluscs of Brazil. Editora Grafíca Bernardi, FAPESP. São Paulo, 390 pp.

External links

• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Megalobulimus gummatus (Hidalgo, 1870) . 6 November 2023 . www.gbif.org . en.
2. Web site: Molluscabase - Megalobulimus gummatus (Hidalgo, 1870) . 6 November 2023 . www.molluscabase.org . en.
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 . en . 61 . e20216144 . 10.11606/1807-0205/2021.61.44 . 0031-1049 . free.