Bostryx ceroplasta

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Bostryx ceroplasta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked):clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Contents

Superfamily: Orthalicoidea
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Bostryx
Species:B. ceroplasta
Binomial name
Bostryx ceroplasta
(Pilsbry, 1896) [1]
Synonyms [2]

Bulimulus (Bostryx) ceroplasta Pilsbry, 1896

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

In biology, a species ( ) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. While these definitions may seem adequate, when looked at more closely they represent problematic species concepts. For example, the boundaries between closely related species become unclear with hybridisation, in a species complex of hundreds of similar microspecies, and in a ring species. Also, among organisms that reproduce only asexually, the concept of a reproductive species breaks down, and each clone is potentially a microspecies.

Land snail

A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to sea snails and freshwater snails. Land snail is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells. However, it is not always easy to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less amphibious between land and fresh water, and others are relatively amphibious between land and salt water.

Bulimulidae family of molluscs

Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.

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]

In anatomy, an apex is part of the shell of a mollusk. The apex is the pointed tip of the shell of a gastropod, scaphopod, or cephalopod.

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Pulmonata order of molluscs

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Stylommatophora suborder of molluscs

Stylommatophora is a taxon of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This taxon is considered to be a clade. It used to be regarded as an infraorder. This taxon includes the majority of land snails and slugs.

Volutidae family of molluscs

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Henry Augustus Pilsbry U.S. zoologist

Henry Augustus Pilsbry was an American biologist, malacologist and carcinologist, among other areas of study. He was a dominant presence in many fields of invertebrate taxonomy for the better part of a century. For much of his career, his authority with respect to the classification of certain substantial groups of organisms was unchallenged: barnacles, chitons, North American terrestrial mollusks, and others.

<i>Bulimulus</i> genus of molluscs

Bulimulus is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical or sub-tropical, air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Bulimulinae within the family Bulimulidae. Bulimulus is the type genus of the subfamily Bulimulinae. The shells are high and conical, and are medium-sized, ranging from about 20 mm to about 50 mm long.

Clausiliidae family of molluscs

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<i>Drymaeus</i> genus of molluscs

Drymaeus is a genus of medium-sized air-breathing, tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Bulimulidae.

Orthalicidae family of molluscs

Orthalicidae are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the informal group Sigmurethra of the clade Stylommatophora. They are medium-sized to large snails, from about 3 cm to 9 cm in shell length.

George Washington Tryon U.S. malacologist and zoologist (1838–1888)

George Washington Tryon Jr. was an American malacologist who worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

<i>Bostryx</i> genus of molluscs

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

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

<i>Bostryx turritus</i> species of mollusc

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

Naesiotus pilsbryi is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.

Neopetraeus filiolus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.

<i>Drymaeus cecileae</i> species of mollusc

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

<i>Drymaeus strigatus</i> species of mollusc

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

<i>Tegula ligulata</i> species of mollusc

Tegula ligulata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.

<i>Tagelus</i> genus of molluscs

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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. 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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