Amphibulima tigrina
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| Shell of Amphibulima tigrina (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Amphibulimidae |
| Genus: | Amphibulima |
| Species: | A. tigrina
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphibulima tigrina (Lesueur, 1822)
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Amphibulima tigrina is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Amphibulimidae. [1]
Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Caribbean on Dominica and Saint Vincent.
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 18 mm, its diameter 11 mm.
(Original description in French) The shell is markedly depressed and exhibits a subpatelliform morphology. Its apex is composed of a mere one and a half whorls, with the body whorl forming the totality of the shell structure. The shell presents a regularly oval, nearly symmetrical outline, and its aperture is nearly commensurate with the shell's overall size. A subtle columellar rim is created by the penultimate whorl, leading to a fully uncoiled and open shell with exceptionally thin margins. The columella is slightly obtuse and reveals a weakly protruding spiral of one and a half whorls within. This exceptionally delicate shell is finely striated due to growth increments, and its amber-yellow test is adorned with small, reddish, subcircular spots.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Amphibulima tigrina (Lesueur, 1822). 13 March 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Férussac, A. E. J. P. F. d'Audebard de. ( (1820). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles tant des espèces que l'on trouve aujourd'hui vivantes, que des dépouilles fossiles de celles qui n'existent plus; classés d'après les caractères essentiels que présentent ces animaux et leurs coquilles. J.-B. Bailliere, Paris. Tome deuxième, première partie. Paris: J.-B. Baillière. p. 141. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.124603. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External sources
[edit]- Guppy, R. J. L. (1881). "On the land-shells of S. Vincent, W. I." Proceedings of the Scientific Association of Trinidad. 2 (4): 165-166. Retrieved 13 March 2025.