Check List 17(4): 1113-1116, doi: 10.15560/17.4.1113

First record of Thysanophoridae from Brazil (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)

Rodrigo B. Salvador^‡, Laurent Charles^§, Luiz R.L. Simone^|, Philippe Maestrati^¶

‡ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand§ Muséum de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France| Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil¶ Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Corresponding author: Rodrigo B. Salvador ( salvador.rodrigo.b@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Carl Christensen

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Citation: Salvador RB, Charles L, Simone LR.L, Maestrati P (2021) First record of Thysanophoridae from Brazil (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Check List 17(4): 1113-1116. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.4.1113

Abstract

The terrestrial gastropod family Thysanophoridae is reported herein for the first time from Brazil. The new record stems from a 2015 survey in the Reserva Biológica de Pedra Talhada, a protected Atlantic Forest fragment in Alagoas state, in the northeastern part of the country. Only two empty juvenile shells were found, and the specimens can be tentatively identified as Thysanophora cf. plagioptycha (Shuttleworth, 1854). Given the location is a reserve, this is potentially a natural occurrence and not a case of introduction.

Keywords

Alagoas, Atlantic Forest, Lyroconus, Reserva Biológica de Pedra Talhada, Thysanophora plagioptycha