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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Genus: | Scutalus |
| Species: | S. macedoi |
| Binomial name | |
| Scutalus macedoi Weyrauch, 1967 | |
Scutalus macedoi is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.
Distribution
This species was described from Capillacocha, 11°10’09’S 076°02’25’W, 4150 m, Junín Region, Peru.
Breure (2010) recorded it for the first time from the western slopes of the Cordillera Occidental near Laguna El Viuda, 11°21’45’S 076°38’23’W, 4450 m, Canta Province, Lima Region, Peru.
The material from Canta province has the upper whorls reddish-blue and the specimens are more slender than those shown in the original figure of Weyrauch. However, compared to paratypes (RMNH 55449/5), the shell shape is similar.
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference
- Weyrauch W.K. (1967). "Treinta y ocho nuevos gastrópodos terrestres de Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brasil y Perú". Acta Zoologica Lilloana 21: 343-455. page 398, figs 42-44.
- ^ 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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| Scutalus macedoi | |
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