Bostryx fragilis

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

The specific epithet fragilis is from the Latin language and means "fragile", it refers to the thin shell.

[1] The shell up to 18.9 mm in height, two times as long as wide, narrowly perforate, elongate, with hardly convex sides and fragile.

[1] Colour is whitish on a translucent background, the upper whorls are becoming gradually tawny-brown towards the apex.

[1] Protoconch is with wrinkles, mostly broken into granules and crossed by finely incised spiral lines.

[1] Finally, it may be compared to Bostryx delicatulus (Philippi, 1867) from which it differs by (1) being stouter, (2) the brownish upper whorls and (3) the simple peristome.

Paratype of the shell of Thaumastus flori . Shell height 17.4 mm.
Photo of upper whorls of Bostryx fragilis showing fine, interrupted spiral lines and protoconch sculpture . [ 1 ]