Bocourtia aurea (Breure, 1978)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bocourtia aurea (Breure, 1978)

Tamanho médio: 43 mm

Ocorrência: Peru (Cajamarca)

Localidade tipo: Peru, “Dept. Cajamarca, 26 km N E Encanada, 3650 m (F. G. Thompson leg.)”

Altitude: 3650 m

Nome original: Scutalus (Vermiculatus) aureus Breure, 1978

Sinônimos: Scutalus aureus Breure, 1978

Etimologia: o nome da espécie deriva da palavra em Latim “aureus”, que significa dourado (golden), uma referência às estrias e manchas branco-amareladas

Descrição original:

(Breure, 1978): “Shell up to 48.5 mm, 2.0 times as long as wide, rimate, with slightly convex sides, elongate, rather solid. Colour brown with irregular whitish and yellowish streaks and spots, which are more or less arranged in axial rows. Surface rather shining, the growth striae incrassate; especially on the last whorl spiral striae may be observed which form granules and puckered spiral bands.

Protoconch sculptured with very fine wrinkles, anastomosing mainly on lower part of whorl, the interstices about as broad as the wrinkles. Whorls 6.6, hardly convex; suture well impressed. Aperture subovate to inversed ear-shaped, 1.7 times as long as wide, 0.5 times the total length. Peristome thin and simple. Columellar margin slightly reflexed and narrowly dilated above. Columella with a slight fold inside the aperture. Parietal region with a callus.”

Fotos: (1) Bocourtia aurea (Breure, 1978), Florida State Museum, Gainesville, EUA: HOLOTYPE UF 22754, Peru, Dept. Cajamarca, 26 km N E Encanada, 3650 m (F. G. Thompson leg.), 47.0mm

Figura: Breure, 1978: (9 – 10) Bostryx lentiformis, Argentina, San Juan, Sierra del Tontal, HOLOTYPE MACN, 8.5mm;  (11) Bostryx cuyanus (Pfeiffer), IML, Argentina, Mendoza, “near Villavicencio”, 8.0 mm; (12) Universidade da Florida, HOLOTYPE de Bocourtia aurea (Breure, 1978), UF 22754, Peru, Cajamarca, 26 km N E Encañada, 47mm; (13) Bostryx inaquosum, HOLOTYPE (USNM), Chile, “near Copiapo”, 16.5mm (USNM); (14) Bostryx gayi (Rehder), HOLOTYPE USNM, Chile, Antofagasta, 15.6 mm; (15) Bostryx pictus (Pfeiffer), LECTOTYPE NHMUK, Peru, 22.5 mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Scutalus (Vermiculatus) aureus Breure, 1978) Breure, A. S. H. (1978). Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoologische Verhandelingen. 164(1): 3-255.
página(s): 170, pl. 10 fig. 12

MolluscaBase: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1060030