Amphidromus sowerbyi
| Amphidromus sowerbyi | |
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| Shell of Amphidromus sowerbyi (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphidromus |
| Species: | A. sowerbyi
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| Binomial name | |
| Amphidromus sowerbyi Fulton, 1907
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Amphidromus sowerbyi is a species of air-breathing tree snail, an arboreal gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.[1]
Description
Amphidromus sowerbyi is large, with a shell length ranging from 31 mm (1.2 in) and a diameter of 17 mm (0.67 in).
(Original description) The sinistral shell is thin, with a nearly occluded umbilicus. The protoconch is dull white with a brown apical spot. The teleoconch is yellow on the lower whorls, bearing six narrow dark brown spiral bands on the median whorls, and the body whorl exhibiting two broader bands anteriorly: one immediately below the periphery and the other slightly more ventral. The umbilical region is yellow and is finely obliquely striated. The shell contains approximately 6.25 moderately convex whorls, increasing rather slowly. The aperture is translucent, revealing the external banding. The waxy peristome is very narrowly expanded. The columella is vertical and is narrowly expanded at its insertion. [2]
Distribution
Amphidromus sowerbyi was found on Nias Island, off the werst coast of Sumatra.
References
- ^ "Amphidromus sowerbyi Fulton, 1907". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
- ^ Fulton, H. C. (1907). Descriptions of new species of Trochomorpha, Cochlostyla, Amphidromus, Bulimulus, Drymæus, Placostylus, Stenogyra, Leptopoma, Cyclophorus, Cyclotus, and Alycæus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7. 19(110): 149-157 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
- 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: 83. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
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