Bostryx elatus

Bostryx elatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Bulimulidae
Genus:	Bostryx
Species:	B. elatus
Binomial name
	Bostryx elatus; (Philippi, 1869)
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]

^ 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.

[1] Philippi R. A. (1869). "Diagnoses molluscorum terrestrium et fluviatilium peruanorum". Malakozoologische Blätter 16: 32-42. page 33.

[Breure_2010-2] ^ ^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.

[Haas_1955-3] Haas F. (1955). "On non-marine shells from northeastern Brazil and Peru". Fieldiana Zoology 37: 303-337. pages 324-325.

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