Bostryx ceroplasta
| Bostryx ceroplasta | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Orthalicoidea |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Genus: | Bostryx |
| Species: | B. ceroplasta |
| Binomial name | |
| Bostryx ceroplasta (Pilsbry, 1896)[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Bulimulus (Bostryx) ceroplasta Pilsbry, 1896 | |
Bostryx ceroplasta is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.
Distribution
Description
The shells are, as Pilsbry calls them, ‘waxen white’.[2] Some specimens have the apex coloured, corneous or with a yellow hue.[2]
References
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]
- ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1895-1896). "American Bulimi and Bulimuli. Strophocheilus, Plekocheilus, Auris, Bulimulus". Manual of Conchology (2)10: 1-213. page 159, plate 50, figures 38-39.
- 1 2 3 4 5 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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