Bostryx edmundi Breure & Neubert, 2008

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bostryx edmundi Breure & Neubert, 2008

Tamanho médio: 28 mm

Ocorrência: Peru (Departamento de Lima)

Localidade tipo: Peru,  Departamento de Lima, “Río Cañete valley, Yacca [Hacienda Yaca]”

Altitude: 2260 m

Nome original: Bostryx edmundi Breure & Neubert, 2008

Etimologia: o nome da espécie é uma homenagem ao Prof. Dr Edmund Gittenberger (Leiden), pesquisador no Natural History Museum in Leiden, especializado em moluscos terrestres

Descrição original:

(Breure & Neubert, 2008): “Shell up to 26.6 mm, 2.6 times as long as wide, narrowly perforate, elongate, with straight sides, rather solid. Colour whitish to tawny, usually with axial brownish streaks at irregular intervals, becoming more dense towards the aperture, rarely unicoloured; the upper whorls whitish or corneous. Surface slightly shining, with incrassate growth striae, in some specimens becoming costulae. Protoconch with dense and fine spiral striae, the upper part with traces of wrinkles. Whorls 7, convex; suture impressed. Aperture subovate, the margins converging; 1.75 times as long as wide, 0.38 times total shell height. Peristome thin and simple, rusty-pink coloured on the inside. Columellar margin straight, narrowly dilated above, with the same colour as the inside of the peristome.”

Fotos: (1) Senckenberg Natural History Museum, Frankfurt: HOLOTYPE de Bostryx edmundi, SMF 331475, (antigo número SMF 162195a), “Rio Canete valley: Yacca [Hacienda Yaca]”, 28.3 mm

Figura: Breure & Neubert, 2008:

(1) Bostryx acalles (Pfeiffer, 1853), 10 km from Cajamarca (SMF 157531), H=13 mm; (2) idem, 3 km NW Cajabamba (SMF 162173), H=14.5 mm;

(3) Bostryx aguilari Weyrauch, 1967, near Chala (SMF 164170), H=18.6 mm;

(4) Bostryx anomphalus Pilsbry, 1944, Cerro Choropampa (SMF 162167), H=20.1 mm; (5) idem, near Cajacay (SMF 156396a), H=20.4 mm;

(6) Bostryx cajacayensis, HOLOTYPE (SMF 156395), near Cajacay, H=19.4 mm;

(7) Bostryx circuliportus Breure, 1978, Puente El Diablo (SMF 155892), H=19.8 mm;

(8) Bostryx delicatulus (Philippi, 1867), Hacienda Santo Domingo (SMF 164034), H=18.4 mm;

(9) Bostryx depstus (Reeve, 1849), Cerro Choropampa (SMF 157538), H=22.5 mm; (10) idem, Chontabamba (SMF 157266), H=22.3 mm;

(11,12) Bostryx edmundi, HOLOTYPE (SMF 331475), Yacca, H=28.5 mm; (13) idem, PARATYPE SMF 162135, h=24.8 mm; (14) ibidem, PARATYPE (SMF 162129), H= 24.6 mm; (15) ibidem, PARATYPE (SMF 162130), H=24.0 mm; (16) ibidem, PARATYPE (SMF 162124), H=21.2 mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: 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(4-6), 319-330.
página(s): 324, figs 11-16

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. 15-34.

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1451834