Bostryx ceroplasta (Pilsbry, 1896)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bostryx ceroplasta (Pilsbry, 1896)

Tamanho médio: 20 mm

Ocorrência: Peru (La Libertad, Amazonas)

Localidade tipo: Peru, “Balsas, valley of Maranon River”

Nome original: Bulimulus ceroplasta Pilsbry, 1896

Sinônimos: Bostryx (Lissoacme) ceroplasta Pilsbry 1895

Descrição original:

(Pilsbry, 1895): “Shell perforated, ovate-conic, thin, somewhat translucent, waxen white. Surface shining, with irregular fine wrinkles of growth. Spire stout, conical, the apex obtuse, smooth. Whorls 62, the first obtuse above with comma-shaped apical pit, the next very convex; following whorls moderately convex. Aperture irregularly ovate, narrow above, one-half the length of shell, white within. Outer lip gently and regularly arcuate, thin and acute. Columella straight, vertical, its edge broadly and flatly dilated, appressed above the umbilical perforation. Parietal wall convex, with a very light callus.”

Comentários: Segundo (Breure & Mogollon, 2010), “As conchas são, como Pilsbry as chama, ‘brancas como cera’. Alguns espécimes têm o ápice colorido, córneo ou com uma tonalidade amarela”

Fotos: (1-3)  The Academy of Natural History, Philadelphia: LECTOTYPE de Bostryx ceroplasta (Pilsbry, 1896) ANSP 25468, “Balsas, valley of Maranon River, Peru”, coll. Webb, H. W.

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Bulimulus ceroplasta Pilsbry, 1896) Pilsbry, H. A. (1895-1896). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 2, Pulmonata. Vol. 10: American Bulimi and Bulimuli. Streptocheilus, Plekocheilus, Auris, Bulimulus. pp i-iv, 1-213, pls 1-51. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences. [pp. 1-48, Pl. 2-15, 20 Aug 1895; pp. 49-96, Pl. 16-30, 26 Nov 1895; pp. 97-144, Pl. 31-40, 13 Mar 1896; pp. 145-213, i-iv, title page, Pl. 1, Pl. 41-51, 23 Sep 1896]. , disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1100575
página(s): 159, pl. 50 fig. 38-39

Weyrauch, W. K. (1967). Treinta y ocha nuevos gastropodos terrestres de Peru. Acta Zoológica Lilloana. 21: 343-455, pls. 1-9.
página(s): 354

Breure, Bram & Mogollon, Valentin. (2010). Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Zool. Med. Leiden Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis P.O. Box. 84, página(s) 15-34

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1325067