Bostryx elatus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Genus: | Bostryx |
| Species: | B. elatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Bostryx elatus | |
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Bulimus elatus Philippi, 1869 | |
Bostryx elatus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.
Distribution[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]
- ^ Philippi R. A. (1869). "Diagnoses molluscorum terrestrium et fluviatilium peruanorum". Malakozoologische Blätter 16: 32-42. page 33.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b Haas F. (1955). "On non-marine shells from northeastern Brazil and Peru". Fieldiana Zoology 37: 303-337. pages 324-325.