Bostryx anomphalus

Bostryx anomphalus
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
Genus: Bostryx
Species: B. anomphalus
Binomial name
Bostryx anomphalus
Pilsbry, 1944[1]
Synonyms[2]

Bostryx (Peronaeus) anomphalus Pilsbry, 1944

Bostryx anomphalus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.

Distribution

Description

This is a variable species in its colour pattern, some specimens being uniformly whitish, others with axial streaks of various shades of brown at irregular intervals.[2] Several specimens show a faint pattern of two or three spiral bands on the last whorl, the broadest around the shell base and one or two above the periphery. The upper whorls are whitish, bluish or in some specimens roseate.[2]

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]

  1. ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1944). "Peruvian land Mollusca, II". Nautilus 57: 118-127.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM.
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