Ampelita percyana
| Ampelita percyana | |
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| Shell of Ampelita percyana (holotype) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Acavidae |
| Genus: | Ampelita |
| Species: | A. percyana
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| Binomial name | |
| Ampelita percyana (E. A. Smith, 1880)
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| Synonyms | |
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Helix (Ampelita) percyana E. A. Smith, 1880 (original combination) | |
Ampelita percyana is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Acavidae.[1]
Description
The height of the shell attains 18 mm, its diameter 31 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell, characterized by its thinness and depressed-globose form, is moderately umbilicate. Its surface is minutely granulate in subserial rows and sculpted with very oblique growth lines. The shell's coloration is brownish-olive, sparsely marked with opaque milky-white flashes. It consists of four rapidly increasing, convex whorls. The body whorl is large, somewhat inflated, and descends anteriorly. The spire is slightly prominent, terminating in an obtuse apex. The aperture is large, transverse, and slightly oblique, positioned nearly subhorizontally, with a lilac interior. The peristome is white, shortly expanded, and reflexed. Its margins are approximate, and the columellar edge is oblique, rather straight, and barely arched. [2]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Madagascar.
References
- ^ Ampelita percyana (E. A. Smith, 1880). 11 March 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Smith, E.A. (1880). "Descriptions of twelve new species of shells". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1880: 485. Retrieved 11 March 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Fischer-Piette, E. Blanc, F. & Vukadinovic, D. (1974). Additions aux mollusques terrestres de Madagascar. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie, 146: 467–524.
- Fischer-Piette, E.; C. P. Blanc; F. Blanc & F. Salvat. (1994). "Gastéropodes terrestres pulmonés". Faune de Madagascar. 83: 109.
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External links
- Fischer-Piette, E., Blanc, F. & Salvat, F. (1975). "Complément aux mollusques pulmonés de Madagascar". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Série 3, No 288. 198: 256.
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