Bostryx ploegerorum Breure, 1978

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bostryx ploegerorum Breure, 1978

Tamanho médio: 16 mm

Ocorrência: Peru (Ancash)

Localidade tipo: Peru, Departamento de Ancash, “5 km SW Chavin de Huantar ( F.G. Thompson leg., 2.iv.1972)”

Altitude: 3300 m

Nome original: Bostryx ploegerorum Breure, 1978

Etimologia: o nome da espécie é uma homenagem a Simon & Pauline Ploeger (Leiderdorp, the
Netherlands)

Descrição original:

(Breure, 1978): “Shell up to 15.8 mm, 2.8 times as long as wide, with a narrow but distinct perforation, with straight sides, elongate, rather thin. Colour whitish with axial streaks at irregular distances varying in colour from yellowish to dark brown; rarely a narrow spiral band at the periphery of the last whorl. Surface rather shining, with incrassate growth striae. Protoconch smooth. Whorls 7.1, nearly flat; suture hardly impressed. Aperture subovate to elliptical, the margins converging, 1.7 times as long as wide, 0.33 times the total length. Peristome thin and simple. Columellar margin vertical, narrowly dilated above.”

Fotos:  (1) Breure, 1978: Bostryx ploegerorum: Universidade da Flórida, HOLOTYPE UF 22816, Peru, Ancash, 5 km SW Chavin de Huantar, 15.8 mm, F. G. Thompson leg., 2.iv.1972

Figura: (Breure, 1978): Bostryx ploegerorum, (163) HOLOTYPE UF 22791 , Peru, Ancash, 5 km S W Chavin de Huantar; (164-166) PARATYPES RMNH 55154

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): 115, figs 163-166, pl. 2 fig. 4

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1343091