Amphidromus sumbaensis
| Amphidromus sumbaensis | |
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| Shell of Amphidromus sumbaensis (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphidromus |
| Species: | A. sumbaensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphidromus sumbaensis Fulton, 1896
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Amphidromus sumbaensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae. [1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 34 mm, its diameter 16 mm.
(Original description) The sinistral shell is oblong-conic, narrowly perforate, and solid. It consists of 6.75 convex whorls. The first two whorls are pale purple. The lower whorls are cream to pale yellow below, ornamented with oblique bluish-grey stripes, which are intersected on the upper whorls by interrupted spiral lines of a darker color. The apex is dark brown. The outer lip is slightly expanded and reflected, pale purple. The columella is thick, purple, and connected to the lip by a thin, red callus. [2]
Distribution
[edit]The type species was found on Sumba Island, Indonesia.
References
[edit]- ^ Amphidromus sumbaensisFulton, 1896. 1 April 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Fulton, H.C. (1896). "Description of new species of Nanina, Helix, Amphidromus, and Porphyrobaphe". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; Zoology, Botany, and Geology. Series 6. 18: 102. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
[edit]- 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. 208. Retrieved 15 May 2025.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) 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. Bibcode:2015ZooK..492...49S. doi:10.3897/zookeys.492.8641. hdl:10141/607106. PMC 4389215. PMID 25878542.
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