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Amphidromus enganoensis

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Amphidromus enganoensis
Shell of Amphidromus enganoensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Amphidromus
Species:
A. enganoensis
Binomial name
Amphidromus enganoensis
Fulton, 1896
Synonyms

Amphidromus enganoensis f. sykesi Fruhstorfer, 190 (suspected synonym)

Amphidromus enganoensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae. [1]

Subspecies
  • Amphidromus enganoensis fruhstorferi Laidlaw, 1954

Description

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The length of the shell attains 49 mm, its diameter 28 mm.

(Original description) This sinistral shell is oblong-ovate, perforate, solid, and glossy, exhibiting oblique striations. The ground color is either yellow or rich brown, sometimes with two or three darker brown spiral bands in the latter case. It consists of seven convex whorls, with the suture deeply impressed and marked by a narrow, white spiral band. The outer lip and the columella are broadly expanded and slightly reflected, their margins joined by a thin, transparent callus. The columella is more or less deflected at its point of insertion.[2]

Distribution

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The type species was found on Enggano Island, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

References

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  • Laidlaw, F. F. & Solem, A. (1961). The land snail genus Amphidromus. A synoptic catalogue. Fieldiana: Zoology. 41: 503-677. page(s): 558
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  • Tryon, George W., (George Washington), - Baker, H. Burrington (Horace Burrington), - Cooke, C. Montague (Charles Montague), - Hyatt, Alpheus, - Pilsbry, Henry Augustus (1900). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species. Second series, Pulmonata (2 ed.). Philadelphia: published by the authors. p. 157. Retrieved 15 May 2025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Sutcharit C., Ablett J., Tongkerd P., Naggs F. & Panha S. (2015). "Illustrated type catalogue of Amphidromus Albers, 1850 in the Natural History Museum, London, and descriptions of two new species". ZooKeys. 492: 57. Retrieved 25 March 2025.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Fruhstorfer, H. (1905). "Neue Landschnecken von Bawean and Engano". Nachrichtsblatt der deutschen malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 37 (4): 201.
  • Henderson, J.B. Jr. (198). "A list of land and fresh water shells of Enganio with descriptions of new species". The Nautilus. 12 (2): 15.
  • Benthem Jutting, W.S.S. van (1938). "Non marine Mollusca of Enggano Island". Treubia. 16 (1): 47–50.