Bostryx placitus Breure, 1978

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bostryx placitus Breure, 1978

Tamanho médio: 16 mm

Ocorrência: Peru (Huánaco)

Localidade tipo: Peru, “Dept. Huánaco, 7.6 km S Ambo”

Altitude: 2360 – 2380 m

Nome original: Bostryx placitus Breure, 1978

Descrição original:

(Breure, 1978): “Shell up to 16.0 mm, 3.4 times as long as wide, narrowly perforate, with straight to hardly convex sides, moderately elongate, rather thin. Colour whitish to yellowish-brown with dark reddish-brown spots arranged in axial and spiral series; the spots are partly fused to form axial streaks; upper whorls dark brown or pink. Surface lustreless, with incrassate growth striae. Protoconch with finely incised spiral lines. Whorls 8.1, nearly flat; suture hardly impressed. Aperture subovate, 1.6 times as long as wide, 0.24 times the total length. Peristome thin and simple, narrowly expanded at lower palatal and basal margin. Columellar margin narrowly dilated above.”

Fotos: Senckenberg Natural History Museum, Frankfurt: PARATYPE SMF 249636, Departamento de Huánaco, 7.6 km ao Sul de Ambo, Peru, 13.iii.1975, 13.3 mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: Breure, A. S. H. (1978). Notes on and descriptions of Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Zoologische Verhandelingen. 164(1): 3-255.
página(s): 111, figs 153-154

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1343088