Bostryx

Bostryx
A live individual of Bostryx turritus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Bostryx
Troschel, 1847
Type species
Bulimus solutus
Troschel, 1847
Synonyms

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

Taxonomy

Previously this genus was placed within the Orthalicidae.

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

Distribution

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

Ecology

They live under stones and on cacti.

Bostryx feeds on lichens.

Species

Species in the genus Bostryx include:

Bostryx sensu stricto

Bostryx sensu lato

other Bostryx species:

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ Troschel F. H. (1847). "Zwei neue Peruanische Schnecken". Zeitschrift Malakozoologie 4: 49-52. page 49.
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  4. 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 Archived 2018-09-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. 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" Archived 2013-10-19 at the Wayback Machine. 12 pp. accessed 27 December 2010.