Bostryx granulatus

Bostryx granulatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Bostryx
Species:
B. granulatus
Binomial name
Bostryx granulatus
Breure & Neubert, 2008[1]

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

Distribution

Description

The topotypes collected show that the granulation, which is visible in fresh collected specimens, fades away when the shells are bleached; otherwise these specimens are characteristic.[2]

Smaller specimens of Bostryx granulatus may also be compared to Bostryx superbus Weyrauch, 1967, a species living at higher altitudes in the same Río Cañete valley.[2] Bostryx granulatus however, may be distinguished by the slightly expanded base of the lip, the more slender shell shape and the granulation on the last whorl.[2]

References

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

  1. ^ Breure A. S. H. & Neubert E. (2008). "A preliminary revision of Weyrauch’s unpublished names: taxa of the genus Bostryx Troschel, 1847 (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Orthalicidae)". Basteria 72: 319-330. page 325, figs. 17-19.
  2. ^ a b c d e 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.


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