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

Distribution

Peru

The type locality is Cerro Machaipungo near Bambamarca. Breure (2010) 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.

Naesiotus bambamarcaensis

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.

Naesiotus bambamarcaensis

References

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Ramírez R., Paredes C., Arenas J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biologia Tropical. 51(supplement 3): 225-284

Naesiotus bambamarcaensis

Bulimulidae

Gastropods described in 1960