Finding of Systrophia (S.) argentina n. comb. in the Argentine Precordillera a century and a half after its description (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Scolodontoidea)
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[1] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Argentina
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- Localización: Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, ISSN-e 1853-0400, ISSN 1514-5158, Vol. 22, Nº. 2, 2020, págs. 167-172
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Systrophia (Systrophia) argentina (Strobel, 1874) n. comb. is here re-described 150 years after its discovery. The specimens were found in the Argentine Precordillera (Quebrada San Isidro, Mendoza province, Argentina), at 2.000 m, near the typical locality of the species, here restricted to the Angostura or garganta (gullet) of Villa Vicencio and Casa de Piedra. This snail has a shell of medium size, planispiral, with six whorls; radula with central plate tricuspid, and latero-marginal teeth aculeate, formula: 13 – C – 13; genital tracts very long; vagina short, spermathecal duct reaching the distal extreme of the vagina, near the atrium; penial sheath long, with some circumvolutions, penis occupying most of the penial sheath, deferent duct penetrating laterally at the base of the penis, epiphallus with a retractor muscle adhered to its extreme, large and quadrangular gland attached to the penial sheath; atrium very short. S. (S.) argentina is the only species of the genus Systrophia L. Pfeiffer, 1855 so far found in Argentina.
