Epirobia subsulca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Urocoptoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Heterobranchia Infraclassis: Euthyneura Cohors: Tectipleura Subcohors: Panpulmonata Superordo: Eupulmonata Ordo: Stylommatophora Subordo: Helicina Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Urocoptoidea

Familia: Epirobiidae
Genus: Epirobia
Species: Epirobia subsulca

Name

• Epirobia subsulca Thompson, 2012: 183, figs 11A–C

Holotype: UF 221476; collected by Fred G. Thompson, Steven P. Christman and J. Malcolm Pierson, 19 March, 1994.

Type locality: HONDURAS, Dept. Olancho, Agalta National Park, limestone ridge 6 km NW of Catacamas, ca. 14.88ºN, 85.92ºW, 1300 m alt.

Etymology: The species name subsulca is from the Latin, sub-, less, and sulcus, a furrow, and alludes to the shallow sulcus formed below the periphery in the last whorl.

References

• Thompson, F.G. 2012: The land snail genus Epirobia and allied genera in México and Central America, with the description of a new family, the Epirobiidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Urocoptoidea). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(3): 167-215. PDF Reference page.