Ampelita watersi
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| Ampelita watersi | |
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| Shell of Ampelita watersi (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Acavidae |
| Genus: | Ampelita |
| Species: | A. watersi |
| Binomial name | |
| Ampelita watersi (Angas, 1877) | |
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Ampelita watersi is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Acavidae.[1]
(Original description) This discoidal shell is rather solid and features a small, compressed umbilicus. Its surface is obliquely closely striated with irregular, somewhat undulating, erect striae, crossed by numerous concentric lines, resulting in a minutely reticulated appearance at the intersections. Light purplish-brown, darkening behind the lip, the shell is partially covered by a pale straw-colored epidermis. The spire is depressed, with four rapidly increasing, somewhat convex whorls. The body whorl is very wide, swollen, and bluntly keeled, with a slight depression above the keel. The nearly horizontal aperture is transversely lunate-ovate, margined within by a broad purplish-black band, with a pale lilac interior. The thickened, expanded, and reflected peristome is edged with white, and its margins approximate and are joined by a callus.[2]
