Bostryx metamorphus (Pilsbry, 1896)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bostryx metamorphus (Pilsbry, 1896)

Tamanho médio: 28 – 29 mm

Ocorrência: Chile

Localidade tipo: Chile, sem localidade específica

Nome original: Bulimulus (Bostryx) metamorphus Pilsbry, 1896

Descrição original:

(Pilsbry, 1896): “Shell umbilicated, ovate, with produced, concave-conic spire; rather solid; whitish or light brown with numerous oblique chestnut streaks. Surface lusterless, with rather coarse but not conspicuous wrinkles of growth, without spiral strite. Spire turrited, attenuated above, with obtuse, smooth apex and comma-shaped axial dimple. Whorls 8, the first rapidly increasing and rather bulbous, the rest narrowly convoluted, moderately convex, the last rather disproportionately large and convex, obtusely angular around the capacious umbilicus, which penetrates to the apex and is dusky inside. Aperture ovate, less than half the shell’s length, brown and yellowish within (or white in old shells) ; outer lip simple, thin and unexpanded; columellar lip dilated as usual, the coluinella nearly straight.

Fotos: (1-3)  The Academy of Natural History, Philadelphia: LECTOTYPE ANSP 60842, coll. Pease, W. H., 15.ix.1896

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Bulimulus (Bostryx) metamorphus 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): 157, pl. 1 figs 6-7

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1342492