Bostryx mordens (F. Haas, 1952)

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bostryx mordens (F. Haas, 1952)

Tamanho médio: 20 mm

Ocorrência: Bolívia

Localidade tipo: Bolívia, Yungas del Palmar

Altitude: 1000 m

Nome original: Bulimulus (Peronaeus) mordens F. Haas, 1952; Bulimulus mordens F. Haas, 1952

Comentários: o formato da concha lembra o gênero Pilsbrylia (Cyclodontinidae)

Descrição original:

(Hass, 1952): “Shell very elongate fusiform, rimate, with umbilical area defined by an angle; color unknown, the type being bleached; surface densely hair-striate on the third whorl and on half of the fourth, later whorls widely and irregularly, undulate-retractively rib-striate; there are occasional traces of spiral impressed lines; whorls about 10, the earliest one moderately obese, the later ones gradually becoming flatter, all separated by a well-marked, linear suture;

Shell widest at the eighth whorl; aperture small, about one-fourth the altitude, somewhat oblique, higher than wide, with thin margins and almost without a lip; only the columellar margin broadened and reflexed; no parietal callus; columellar tooth sitting high, lamellar, subhorizontal ; parietal tooth lamellar, diagonal; palatal tooth somewhat removed, thick, knob-like, showing externally as a depression.”

Fotos: (1-3) Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago: HOLOTYPE FMNH 39413, Bolívia, Yungas del Palmar, coletor: Rudolf Zischka, 25.i.1950, 20.1mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: (como Bulimulus (Peronaeus) mordens F. Haas, 1952) Haas, F. (1952). South American non-marine shells: further remarks and descriptions. Fieldiana: Zoology. 34 (9): 107-132., disponível online em https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2746970
página(s): 128, fig. 25

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago: https://collections-zoology.fieldmuseum.org/catalogue/2977421

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1774087