Bostryx anomphalus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Bulimulidae |
| Genus: | Bostryx |
| Species: | B. anomphalus
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| Binomial name | |
| Bostryx anomphalus | |
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Bostryx (Peronaeus) anomphalus Pilsbry, 1944 | |
Distribution edit
- Peru[2] The northernmost limit of this species is Cajamarca Region.[2]
Description edit
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 edit
This article incorporates CC-BY-3.0 text from the reference [2]
- ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1944). "Peruvian land Mollusca, II". Nautilus 57: 118-127.
- ^ a b c d e f 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.