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Amphidromus columellaris

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Amphidromus columellaris
Shell of Amphidromus columellaris gloriosus (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Amphidromus
Species:
A. columellaris
Binomial name
Amphidromus columellaris
Synonyms

Amphidromus (Syndromus) columellaris Möllendorff, 1892 alternative representation

Amphidromus columellaris is a species of air-breathing tree snail, an arboreal gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.[1]

Subspecies
  • Amphidromus columellaris columellaris Möllendorff, 1892
  • Amphidromus columellaris gloriosus Fulton, 1896

Description

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Amphidromus webbi is large, with a shell length ranging from 32.5 mm (1.28 in) and a diameter of 14.1 mm (0.56 in).

(Original description in Latin) The sinistral shell is narrowly perforate, slenderly conico-oblong, somewhat solid and very lightly striate. it is glossy, pale yellow, painted with rather broad, sometimes interrupted green streaks, brownish above, with 3 rosy bands, one at the suture, another below the periphery, the third at the umbilical region, often surrounded by other green, more rarely brown, bands.

The spire is turreted-conical, with a rounded, blackish apex. The shell contains 7 whorls. These are rather flat, slowly increasing, separated by an appressed, white-margined suture, the body whorl slightly ascending anteriorly. The aperture is slightly oblique, narrow and somewhat ear-shaped. The peristome is slightly expanded, white-lipped internally, with the margins joined by a thin, translucent callus. The columella is very spirally twisted and almost revolute towards the perforation.[2]

Distribution

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Amphidromus sowerbyi was found on Lesser Sunda Islands and Tanimbar Islands Indonesia.

References

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  1. ^ "Amphidromus columellaris Möllendorff, 1892". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 April 2025.
  2. ^ Möllendorff, O.F. von (1892). "Die Landschneckenfauna der Tenimber-Inseln (Timorlaut)". Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 24 (5–6): 98. Retrieved 16 April 2025. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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