Bostryx elatus

Bostryx elatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Bostryx
Species: B. elatus
Binomial name
Bostryx elatus
(Philippi, 1869)[1]
Synonyms

Bulimus elatus Philippi, 1869

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

Distribution

Distribution of Bostryx elatus include Peru.[2]

This species was originally described from ‘Pichicna, 2 leagues from Icucha […] between Mayoc and Huanta’.[2] This points to a region between Mayoc in Huancavelica Region, 2200 m, 12°48’40’S 074°23’07’W and, most probably Huanta [misspelling for Huantana], 3000 m, 13°46’01’S 073°37’13’W in Apurímac Region.[2]

Fritz Haas (1955)[3] reported on specimens collected near Mayoc and Locroja [3700 m, 12°41’S 074°26’W] in Huancavelica Region and added Palmira [2300 m, 13°35’19’S 073°11’25’W] in Apurímac Region.[2]

Beure (2010)[2] reported on specimens collected ca. 55 km North-West of Mayoc.[2]

Description

Haas (1955)[3] also noted that the colour pattern varied more in the specimens from near Mayoc and Locroja.[2] The variety in patterns, from uniformly greyish-white to uniformly streaked at irregular intervals, is also observed in material collected by Breure (2010).[2] The aberrant pattern noted by Haas, viz. streaks with ‘lateral, triangular appendages that tend to be arranged in spiral rows’ has been observed in a single shell from the series examined by Breure (2010).[2]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]

  1. ↑ Philippi R. A. (1869). "Diagnoses molluscorum terrestrium et fluviatilium peruanorum". Malakozoologische Blätter 16: 32-42. page 33.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
  3. 1 2 Haas F. (1955). "On non-marine shells from northeastern Brazil and Peru". Fieldiana Zoology 37: 303-337. pages 324-325.
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