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Bostryx ceroplasta

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Species of gastropod

Bostryx ceroplasta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Bulimulidae
Genus: Bostryx
Species: B. ceroplasta
Binomial name
Bostryx ceroplasta
(Pilsbry, 1896)
Synonyms

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’. Some specimens have the apex coloured, corneous or with a yellow hue.

References

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  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.
Taxon identifiers
Bostryx ceroplasta


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