Bostryx

Bostryx
A live individual of Bostryx turritus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Subfamily: Bostrycinae
Genus: Bostryx
Troschel, 1847[1]

Bostryx is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.[2]

Taxonomy

Previously this genus was placed within the Orthalicidae.[3]

Bostryx sensu stricto is the type genus of the subfamily Bostrycinae,[2] but some species of Bostryx sensu lato are placed within Bulimulinae.[2] There is need further research to elucidate which subgenera belong to which subfamily.[2]

Distribution

There are 29 species from the genus Bostryx in Chile[4] and numerous species in other countries.

Ecology

They are living under stones and on cacti.[4]

Bostryx feeds on lichens.[4]

Species

Species in the genus Bostryx include:

Bostryx sensu stricto

Bostryx sensu lato

other Bostryx species:

References

  1. Troschel F. H. (1847). "Zwei neue Peruanische Schnecken". Zeitschrift Malakozoologie 4: 49-52. page 49.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/001-020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (created 27 December 2008) "Chilean Orthalicidae". 12 pp. accessed 27 December 2010.

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