Bostryx primigenius Breure, 2008

CLASSE: GASTROPODA: TERRESTRE

FAMÍLIA: BULIMULIDAE

ESPÉCIE: Bostryx primigenius Breure, 2008

Tamanho médio: 14 mm

Ocorrência: Peru, Departamento de Lima

Localidade tipo: Peru, Departamento de Lima, “right bank Rio Rimac, El Infernillo”

Altitude: 3360 m

Nome original: Bostryx primigenius Breure, 2008

Descrição original:

(Breure, 2008): “Shell up to 14.2 mm, 1.83 times as long as wide, narrowly but distinct perforated, with straight sides, elongate, rather thin. Colour whitish with axial corneous streaks and/or small spiral bands; in the latter case at least two on the last whorl, one at the periphery and one halfway between the periphery and the suture above, lighter spiral bands in between. Upper whorls corneous. Surface rather shining, with incrassate growth striae. Protoconch smooth, corneous or bluish. Whorls 5.8, nearly fl at; suture hardly impressed. Aperture subovate, the margins converging, 1.46 times as long as wide, 0.40 times the total length. Peristome thin and simple. Columellar margin straight, narrowly dilated above.”

Fotos: (1)  Senckeberg Natural History Museum, Frankfurt: HOLOTYPE SMF 155706, margem direita do Rio Rimac valley: El Infernillo (3360 m)

Figura: Breure, 2008: Bostryx primigenius, (à esquerda) HOLOTYPE, 13.0mm ; (à direita)  PARATYPE SMF 156285, 13.5 mm

Fontes:

Descrição original: Breure, A. S. H. (2008). Carination strikes the eye: extreme shell shapes and sibling species in three Andean genera of the Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora). Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden. 82: 499-514
página(s): 505

Breure, Bram & Meinecke, Philipp & Richter-Harder, Nora & Groenenberg, Dick & Breugelmans, Karin & Backeljau, Thierry. (2024). From depressed to detached: extreme shell shape variation in some Peruvian Bostryx species (Gastropoda: Bulimulidae). 71. página(s) 17-31

MolluscaBase: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1739899