Amphidromus heerianus
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| Shell of Amphidromus heerianus (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphidromus |
| Species: | A. heerianus
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| Amphidromus heerianus (L. Pfeiffer, 1871)
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Amphidromus heerianus is a species of air-breathing tree snail, an arboreal gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell varies between 43 mm and 53 mm, its diameter between 24 mm and 28 mm.
The shell is perforate and ovate-conic, appearing rather thin and rudely striate. It is sculptured with very fine and close spiral striae. Its color is pale tawny-whitish, densely streaked with cinnamon, and it exhibits only a slight shine. The spire presents a broadly conic shape with a rather acute apex, and the suture appears superficial and somewhat hair-margined. Comprising six a little convex whorls, the body whorl is more swollen and a little shorter than the spire, featuring a narrow white umbilical patch. The aperture lies slightly oblique and has a somewhat rhombic-oval shape, appearing white and glossy inside. The peristome is rather broadly expanded and narrowly recurved, white, with its margins joined by an entering milk-white callus. The columellar margin is dilated and reflexed. [2]
Distribution
[edit]This species is endemic to Java, Indonesia.
References
[edit]- ^ Amphidromus heerianus (L. Pfeiffer, 1871). 24 April 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ 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. 138. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Laidlaw, F. F. & Solem, A. (1961). "The land snail genus Amphidromus. A synoptic catalogue". Fieldiana: Zoology. 41: 562.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Dharma, B. (2007). "Report on fossil Amphidromus and description of new species and new subspecies of recent and fossil Amphidromus from Indonesia (Gastropoda, Pulmonata: Camaenidae)". Schriften zur Malakozoologie. 23: 68.
External links
[edit]- Mousson, A. (1849). "Über die Land- und Süsswassermollusken von Java". Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich. 1 (3): 267. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- Benthem Jutting, W. S. S. van. (1950). "Systematic studies on the non-marine Mollusca of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. II Critical revision of the Javanese pulmonate landshells of the families Helicarionidae, Pleurodontidae, Fruticicolidae and Streptaxidae". Treubia. 20: 483. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
