Amphidromus yangbayensis

Amphidromus yangbayensis
Shell of Amphidromus yangbayensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Amphidromus
Species:
A. yangbayensis
Binomial name
Amphidromus yangbayensis
Thach & F. Huber, 2016

Amphidromus yangbayensis is a species of medium-sized air-breathing tree snail, an arboreal gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 36 mm.

Habitat

This species lives in trees.

Distribution

The type locality of this species is Vietnam.

References

  • Thach, N.N. (2016). Vietnamese new mollusks. Seashells – Land snails – Cephalopods. With 59 new species. Akron, Ohio: 48HRBooks Company. p. 70.
  • Páll-Gergely, B., Hunyadi, A. & Auffenberg, K. (2020). Taxonomic vandalism in malacology: comments on molluscan taxa recently described by N. N. Thach and colleagues (2014–2019). Folia Malacologia. 28(1): 35–76.
  • Thach, N. N. (2021). New shells of South Asia and Taiwan, China, Tanzania. Seashells*Freshwater*Land snails. With 116 new species and subspecies and rejected synonyms, accepted species. 48HRBooks Company, Akron, Ohio, USA. 202 pp.