Bulimus elatus Philippi, 1869 Bostryx elatus is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Bulimulidae.

[2] This species was originally described from ‘Pichicna, 2 leagues from Icucha […] between Mayoc and Huanta’.

[2] Fritz Haas (1955)[3] reported on specimens collected near Mayoc and Locroja [3700 m, 12°41’S 074°26’W] in Huancavelica Region and added Palmira [2300 m, 13°35’19’S 073°11’25’W] in Apurímac Region.

[2] Haas (1955)[3] also noted that the colour pattern varied more in the specimens from near Mayoc and Locroja.

streaks with ‘lateral, triangular appendages that tend to be arranged in spiral rows’ has been observed in a single shell from the series examined by Breure (2010).