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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-08-27
Page range: 295–297
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A new species of Lilloiconcha Weyrauch, 1965 (Pulmonata: Charopidae) from central Chile

Universidad de Atacama, Copayapu 485, Copiapó, Region of Atacama, Chile and Programa de Doctorado en Sistemática y Biodiversidad, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile Laboratorio de Química Inorgánica y Electroquímica, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Las Palmeras 3425. Ñuñoa. Santiago. Chile
Laboratorio de Química Inorgánica y Electroquímica, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Las Palmeras 3425. Ñuñoa. Santiago. Chile
Mollusca Pulmonata Charopidae

Abstract

Most recent research concerning terrestrial mollusks from Chile has focused in species from southern areas of the country (Vargas-Almonacid 2000, Vargas-Almonacid & Stuardo 2007, Miquel & Barker 2009, Miquel & Cádiz-Lorca 2009, among others), all of them involving charopid or punctid snails, with only a few works reviewing species from northern Chile (Miquel & Araya, 2013, Araya & Catalán, 2014). In this study we describe the occurrence of a new charopid species, the second record of the genus Lilloiconcha in the country, living near Los Molles in central Chile. This small species lives buried in humus and underneath stones, large boulders and rotten leaves.