Naesiotus bambamarcaensis

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Naesiotus bambamarcaensis is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.[2]

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Naesiotus bambamarcaensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Naesiotus
Species:
N. bambamarcaensis
Binomial name
Naesiotus bambamarcaensis
Weyrauch, 1960[1]
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Distribution

The type locality is Cerro Machaipungo near Bambamarca.[3] Breure (2010)[3] have published another locality Chalamarca 06°29’29’S 078°28’07’W, Cajamarca Region, Peru, that is about 20 km SSW from the type locality.[3]

Description

The specimens from the Chalamarca locality are slightly smaller than the holotype and vary in their dimensions, but otherwise show the colour pattern characteristic for this species, viz. corneous-brown with a whitish spiral band at the periphery of the last whorl.[3]

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