Bostryx ceroplasta

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

Bostryx ceroplasta
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. ceroplasta
Binomial name
Bostryx ceroplasta
(Pilsbry, 1896)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Bulimulus (Bostryx) ceroplasta Pilsbry, 1896

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]

  1. 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.
  2. Breure A. S. H. & Mogollón Avila V. (2010). "Well-known and little-known: miscellaneous notes on Peruvian Orthalicidae (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen 84. HTM Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine.


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