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specimen of Solaropsis aff. fairchildi. 1, dorsal view on the move; 2, eating flesh meat.
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A specimen of Solaropsis aff. fairchildi was collected at Tupaciguara, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on march 2010. In captivity only fresh meat was consumed, although foods of animal and vegetable food have also been offered.
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... The land snail genus Solaropsis Beck, 1837 (type species Helix pellisserpentis Gmelin, 1791) is distributed in Central and South America, from Costa Rica to Argentina (Cuezzo et al. 2018). Solaropsis species are known to inhabit trunks and branches of fallen trees, in litter (Cuezzo and Fernández 2001), but additional ecological information is lacking (Oliveira 2010). Currently, the genus Solaropsis has ~20 species in Brazil, ~9 of which are found in north Brazil (Salgado and Coelho 2003;Simone 2006;Salvador and Simone 2015;Cuezzo et al. 2018;Calcutt et al. 2020). ...
An attempt to analyse the taxonomy of the genus Solaropsis, aiming to allocate a new species collected in Rio Cajari Extractive Reserve, Laranjal do Jari, Amapá State, Brazil, revealed that a nebula of uncertainties surrounds the genus, from the family level to the validity of several species. An initial taxonomic treatment is given for some taxa herein, resulting in modifications such as S. pellisserpentis (Gmelin, 1791) as an objective synonym of S. undata ([Lightfoot], 1786); and S. cicatricata (Beck, 1853) as the oldest name of the depression-bearing species. This taxonomic treatment is intended only to allow the description of the new species. Solaropsis caperata is, thus, introduced, having as its main distinguishing features the globose shell, strongly depressed half a whorl before the peristome, slightly convex whorls, large aperture and umbilicus, and cream colour with brown spots.
http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E3F92910-81EF-4632-94CC-BDD038023B78
