Bostryx hirsutus Breure, 1978

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bostryx hirsutus Breure, 1978

Tamanho médio: 12 mm

Ocorrência: Peru (Cajamarca)

Localidade tipo: Peru, Departamento de Cajamarca, “Rio Jequetepeque valley, near Chilete, Tambo Tingo (W. Weyrauch leg.)

Altitude: 1000 m

Nome original: Bostryx hirsutus Breure, 1978

Etimologia: o nome da espécie deriva da palavra em Latim “hirsutus”, que significa áspero (rough); referindo-se aos pelos epidérmicos que dão à concha uma aparência áspera

Descrição original:

(Breure, 1978): “Shell up to 11.8 mm, 1.92 times as long as wide, perforate, with straight sides, rather elongate, thin. Colour light brownish. Surface somewhat shining, with spiral series of little knobs. In fresh specimens with corresponding rows of epidermal hairs. Protoconch sculptured with numerous fine spiral lines and very low axial riblets at irregular intervals. Whorls 6.2,rather convex; suture well impressed. Aperture subovate, 1.60 times as long as wide, 0.39 times the total length. Peristome thin and simple. Columellar margin slightly reflexed and narrowly dilated above.”

Fotos:  nd

Figura: (Breure, 1978): Bostryx hirsutus, Peru, “Cajamarca, near Chilete” , IML — Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina

Fontes:

Descrição original: Breure, A. S. H. (1978). Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoologische Verhandelingen. 164(1): 3-255, disponível online em https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254893058_Notes_on_and_descriptions_of_Bulimulidae_Mollusca_Gastropoda
página(s): 82, figs 125-127

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341725