Bostryx mejillonensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bostryx mejillonensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)

Tamanho médio: 25 mm

Ocorrência: Chile, Deserto do Atacama

Localidade tipo: Chile, “Mejillones in deserto Atacamensi”

Nome original: Bulimus mejillonensis L. Pfeiffer, 1857

Etimologia: o nome da espécie é uma referência à localidade tipo, Mejillones, no deserto do Atacama

Descrição:

(Pilsbry, 1896): “Shell oblong-ovate, solid; opaque-white, with irregular, interrupted corneous streaks, or uniform white. Surface lusterless, with irregular growth-wrinkles (and sometimes showing some faint incised spirals, or coarse malleation). Spire conic, with convex outlines, apex somewhat mamillar, whorls 6, convex. Aperture slightly less than half the length of shell, long ovate; outer lip sharp, with a broad and rather heavy internal thickening. Columella slightly concave, columellar lip dilated; parietal callus moderately heavy, white. Umbilicus narrow.”

Fotos: (1-3) Natural History Museum, London: LECTOTYPE de Bulimus mejillonensis L. Pfeiffer, 1857, NHMUK 1975322, coleção Hugh Cuming, Deserto do Atacama, 24.1mm; (4) Breure & Araujo, 2016: Bostryx mejillonensis (Pfeiffer in Pfeiffer & Dunker, 1857), Museu Nacional de Ciências Naturais, Madrid, MNCN 15.05/13141

Figura: Breure & Ablett, 2014: (A) Bostryx affinis (Broderip in Broderip and Sowerby I 1832), possível SYNTYPE NHMUK 20100610 (H = 27.5mm); (B) Bostryx huascensis (Reeve, 1848), LECTOTYPE NHMUK 1975159 (H = 19.1mm); (C) Bostryx mejillonensis (Pfeiffer, 1857), LECTOTYPE NHMUK 1975322 (H = 24.1mm); (D) Bostryx kathiae Breure, 1978, PARATYPE NHMUK 1975228 (H = 17.5mm); (E) Bostryx obliquistriatus (da Costa, 1901), LECTOTYPE NHMUK 1907.11.21.41 (H = 28.9mm); (E) Bostryx rhololarynx papillatus (Morelet, 1860), SYNTYPE NHMUK 1893.2.4.192 (H = 22.7mm); (G) Bostryx rhodolarynx (Reeve, 1849), LECTOTYPE NHMUK 1975434 (H = 34.5mm)

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Bulimus mejillonensis L. Pfeiffer, 1857) Pfeiffer, L. & Dunker, W. (1857). Diagnosen neuer Heliceen. Malakozoologische Blätter. 4: 229-232., disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15865474
página(s): 230

Breure AS, Araujo R. 2016. The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacífico’. PeerJ Preprints 5:e2667v1, disponível online em https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2667v1

Araya J.F. (2015). The Bulimulidae (Mollusca: Pulmonata) from the Región de Atacama, northern Chile. PeerJ. 3:e1383., disponível online em https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1383

Breure ASH, Ablett J (2014) Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys 392: 1-367. disponível online em https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.392.6328

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=866590