Amphidromus furcillatus
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| Amphidromus furcillatus | |
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| Shell of Amphidromus furcillatus (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphidromus |
| Species: | A. furcillatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphidromus furcillatus (Mousson, 1849) | |
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Amphidromus furcillatus 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 35 mm, its diameter 18.2 mm.
The sinistral shell is long-conic, subperforate, smooth, and glossy. It exhibits a buff-white base color with grayish-brown flames. Comprising seven a little convex and regularly increasing whorls, the shell features a black tip at the apex. The body whorl measures two-fifths of the total length and appears uniform or spirally two-banded below, while being flammulated above with flames that bifurcate or trifurcate before disappearing at the suture. The aperture is ovate and white, showing the bands through it; the parietal wall is yellowish. The peristome is thin, reflexed, and white, joining the straight and slender columella at an angle, nearly covering the perforation. [2]
Habitat
This species lives in trees.
