See list Bostryx is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bulimulidae.
[3][2] Previously this genus was placed within the Orthalicidae.
[4] Bostryx sensu stricto is the type genus of the subfamily Bostrycinae,[3] but some species of Bostryx sensu lato are placed within Bulimulinae.
[3] There is need further research to elucidate which subgenera belong to which subfamily.
[5] Bostryx feeds on lichens.