''Solaropsis'', also known by the
common name sundial snails or sun snails, is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the family
Solaropsidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Solaropsis H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870601 on 2021-02-07]
Distribution
Distribution of ''Solaropsis'' include:
Central America:
* Costa Rica
South America:
*
Colombia
*
Bolivia
* Guyana
*
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
* northeastern
Argentina
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Species
Species within the genus ''Solaropsis'' include:
*''
Solaropsis alcobacensis'' Salvador & Simone, 2015
* ''
Solaropsis amazonica'' (Pfeiffer, 1854)
[ Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". ''Rev. Biol. Trop.'' 51(Suppl. 3): 149-189. (with English abstract)]
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* ''
Solaropsis andicola''
L. Pfeiffer[Schileyko A. A. (2006). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 13. Helicidae, Pleurodontidae, Polygyridae, Ammonitellidae, Oreohelicidae, Thysanophoridae". ''Ruthenica'' Suppl. 2: 1765-1906. pages 1840-1843.]
* ''
Solaropsis anguicula''
(Hupé, 1853)
* ''
Solaropsis angulifera''
F. Haas, 1955
* ''
Solaropsis anomala''
Pilsbry, 1957
* ''
Solaropsis bachi''
Ihering, 1900
* ''
Solaropsis brasiliana''
(Deshayes, 1831)
* ''
Solaropsis caperata''
F. S. Silva, Mendes-Júnior & Simone, 2022
* ''
Solaropsis castelnaudii''
(Hupé & Deville, 1850)
* ''
Solaropsis catenifera''
L. Pfeiffer, 1854
* ''
Solaropsis cearana''
(F. Baker, 1914)
* ''
Solaropsis chicomendesi''
Cuezzo & I. Fernández, 2001
* ''
Solaropsis cicatricata''
Beck, 1837
* ''
Solaropsis cousini''
Jousseaume, 1887
* ''
Solaropsis derbyi''
(Ihering, 1900)
* ''
Solaropsis diplogonia''
(Dohrn, 1882)
* ''
Solaropsis elaps''
Dohrn, 1882
* ''
Solaropsis fairchildi''
Bequaert & Clench, 1938
* ''
Solaropsis feisthameli''
(Hupé, 1853)
* ''
Solaropsis gibboni''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
* ''
Solaropsis heliaca''
(d’Orbigny, 1835)
* ''
Solaropsis incarum''
(Philippi, 1869)
* ''
Solaropsis inornata''
Haas, 1951
* ''
Solaropsis johnsoni''
Pilsbry, 1933
* ''
Solaropsis juruana''
(Ihering, 1905)
* ''
Solaropsis leopoldina''
(Strubel, 1895)
* ''
Solaropsis marmatensis'' L. Pfeiffer
* ''
Solaropsis monile''
(Broderip, 1832)
* ''
Solaropsis monolacca''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
* ''
Solaropsis nimbus''
(Simone, 2010)
* ''
Solaropsis nubeculata''
(Deshayes, 1831)
* ''
Solaropsis palizae''
Weyrauch, 1956
* ''
Solaropsis pascalia''
(Cailliaud, 1857)
* ''
Solaropsis pellisboae''
(Hupé, 1853)
* ''
Solaropsis penthesileae''
Salvador, 2021
* ''
Solaropsis pilsbryi''
Ihering, 1900
* ''
Solaropsis pizarro''
(Pilsbry, 1944)
* ''
Solaropsis planior''
(Pilsbry, 1889)
* ''
Solaropsis praestans''
L. Pfeiffer, 1854
* ''
Solaropsis punctata''
(Wagner, 1827)
* ''
Solaropsis rosarium''
(Pfeiffer, 1849)
* ''
Solaropsis rugifera''
Dohrn, 1882
* ''
Solaropsis selenostoma''
L. Pfeiffer, 1854
* ''
Solaropsis serpens''
(Spix, 1827)
* ''
Solaropsis tiloriensis''
(Angas, 1879)
* ''
Solaropsis trigonostoma''
Haas, 1934
* ''
Solaropsis undata''
(Lightfoot, 1786)
* ''Solaropsis undata''
F. Haas, 1966 (homonymy: a secondary junior homonym of ''Solaropsis undata''
( ightfoot 1786). There is no recognized synonym or substitute name available, and a replacement name may be necessary if the species is confirmed to be valid).
* ''
Solaropsis venezuelensis''
Preston, 1909
* ''
Solaropsis vipera''
(Pfeiffer, 1859)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Solaropsis catenulata''
(Ancey, 1890): synonym of ''Solaropsis marmatensis''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1855)
* * ''Solaropsis kuhni'' ''L. Pfeiffer'':
synonym of ''Solaropsis nubeculata''
(Deshayes, 1831)
* ''Solaropsis paravicinii''
Ancey, 1897: synonym of ''Solaropsis heliaca''
(d'Orbigny, 1835)
* ''Solaropsis pellisserpentis''
Chemnitz:
synonym of ''Solaropsis undata''
( ightfoot 1786)
Ecology
''Solaropsis'' lives in
rain forest
Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainforest ...
s.
''Solaropsis'' aff. ''fairchildi'' has been found to feed on flesh meat in the laboratory.
[Oliveira L. E. (2010). "Carnivory in ''Solaropsis'' aff. ''fairchildi'' (Gastropoda, Solaropsidae)". ''Strombus'' 17(2): 12-13]
abstract
References
* Pilsbry, H. A. (1926). The land mollusks of the Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 78: 57-126, plates 9-10.
* Pilsbry, H. A. (1933). Zoological results of the Matto Grosso expedition to Brazil in 1931,-II. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 85: 67-76 + 1 plate.
* Weyrauch, W.K. (1956). Neue Landschnecken aus Peru. Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 85 (4/6): 145-164, pl. 11. Frankfurt am Main.
* Cuezzo M. G. (2002). "On ''Solaropsis'' Beck: New anatomical data and its systematic position within Helicoidea (Pulmonata, Stylomatophora)". ''Papeis avulsos de Zool.'', São Paulo 42(3): 31-46.
* Simone, L. R. L. (2010). A new genus and species of camaenid from the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil (Pulmonata , Helicoidea). Journal of Conchology. 40(2): 149-161
External links
Beck, H. (1837-1838). Index molluscorum praesentis aevi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. 124 pp. Hafniae Wagner, J. A. (1827). Testacea fluviatilia quae in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX (1817-1820) jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis augustissimi suscepto, collegit et pingenda curavit Dr. J. B. de Spix (...), digessit, descripsit et observationibus illustravit Dr. J. A. Wagner. Munich: C. Wolf. pp. i-iv, 1-36, plates 1-29.Miller, K. (1878). Die Binnenmollusken von Ecuador. Malakozoologische Blätter. 25: 153-199Breure, A. S. H. & Araujo, R. (2017). The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the “Comisión Científica del Pacífico.”. PeerJ. 5, e3065.
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