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Carnivory in Solaropsis aff. fairchildi (Gastropoda,Solaropsidae)

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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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Carnivory in Solaropsis aff. fairchildi (Gastropoda, Solaropsidae)
Luciano E. Oliveira1
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1PPG em Ecologia e Conservação dos Recursos Naturais.
Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
CEP 38400-902. Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brasil
Email: luc.deoliveira@gmail.com
The genus Solaropsis Beck, 1837 has undergone by taxonomic changes for a long time and the systematic
confusion was probably due to the lack of information on the anatomies of the different species and the
tradition of describing new species based only on shell characters (Cuezzo, 2002). Solaropsis is present
from Costa Rica to northeastern Argentina and from western Colombia to Guyana and it’s a characteristic
inhabitant of rain forest regions, being more abundant in eastern South America, especially in Guyana,
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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.
Um espécime de Solaropsis aff. fairchildi foi coletado em Tupaciguara, Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil, em
março de 2010. Em cativeiro apenas carne fresca foi consumida, embora alimentos de origem animal e
vegetal também tenham sido oferecidos.
Scientic Note
Figs 1-2. specimen of Solaropsis aff. fairchildi. 1, dorsal view on the move; 2, eating esh meat.
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Strombus 17(1-2): 12-13, Jan-dez. 2010
Received: February 25, 2010. Accepted: November 25, 2010.
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Acknowledgments
I want to thank Dr. Carlo M. Cunha who encourage this publication and a anonymous review who sent me
comments and corrections.
Brazil and Bolivia (Cuezzo, 2003). Solaropsis fairchild Bequaert & Clench, 1938 is distributed at state of
Goiás and Minas Gerais, central Brazil (Simone, 2006:240) and data on their ecology are absent. Although
carnivory has been considered a feeding strategy in some terrestrial gastropods groups (e.g., Spiraxidae
and Streptaxidae) (Barker & Efford, 2002) this behavior never was observed to Solaropsis species.
One specimen of Solaropsis aff. fairchildi (Figure 1-2) (voucher MZUSP) was collected at a rock on a
riparian Forest off Tupaciguara (18°40’12”S, 48°30’47”W) near Uberabinha River (state of Minas Gerais)
in march 2010. The snail was kept by around 60 days at a styrofoam box (35 x 25 x 30 cm). In the rst
week were offered fruit and vegetables such as banana, pear, lettuce, tomato and the snail did not eat
anyone of them, however just chopped meat offered in the next weeks was accepted. Although the hunting
behavior of a live prey was not observed, this species shows clearly a carnivorous feeding behavior.
... 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). ...
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I want to thank Dr. Carlo M. Cunha who encourage this publication and a anonymous review who sent me comments and corrections.
Land and freshwater moluscs of Brazil. 1 ed. São Paulo: EBG. 390p. Acknowledgments I want to thank Dr. Carlo M. Cunha who encourage this publication and a anonymous review who sent me comments and corrections
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SIMONE, L. R. L. 2006. Land and freshwater moluscs of Brazil. 1 ed. São Paulo: EBG. 390p. Acknowledgments I want to thank Dr. Carlo M. Cunha who encourage this publication and a anonymous review who sent me comments and corrections.