Amphidromus cochinchinensis
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| Amphidromus cochinchinensis | |
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| Shell of Amphidromus cochinchinensis (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphidromus |
| Species: | A. cochinchinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphidromus cochinchinensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1857) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Bulimus cochinchinensis L. Pfeiffer, 1857 (original combination) | |
Amphidromus cochinchinensis is a species of medium-sized air-breathing tree snail, an arboreal gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 39 mm, its diameter 17 mm.
The solid shell is imperforate, fusiform-ovate, smooth and glossy. It is pale sulfur-yellow or whitish. The spire is somewhat convex-turreted. The apex somewhat blunt. The suture is smooth and pale. The shell contains 6 to 7 whorls, the upper ones rather flat, the following ones more convex, the body whorl nearly equaling 2/3 of the length, attenuate at the base and somewhat compressed. The columella is rope-like and slightly twisted. The aperture is slightly oblique and elliptical-oval. The peristome is somewhat thickened, with the right lip shortly expanded, the columellar margin dilated and adnate.[2][a]
Habitat
This species lives in trees.
