Amphidromus glaucolarynx
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| Amphidromus glaucolarynx | |
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| Shell of Amphidromus glaucolarynx (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphidromus |
| Species: | A. glaucolarynx |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphidromus glaucolarynx (Dohrn, 1861) | |
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Amphidromus glaucolarynx is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae.[1]
This is the only one amphidromine (left-handed and right-handed snails occur in the population) species in the subgenus Syndromus.[2]
The length of the shell attains 44.2 mm, its diameter 20.1 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell presents a slit-like umbilicus and exhibits an ovate-turreted shape. It feels rather thin and smooth, lying under a horny yellow epidermis that is broadly streaked and banded with bluish- or purplish-brown. The spire has a conical shape and is somewhat blunt, displaying a purple coloration, rarely livid. The suture is submarginate and broadly white-banded. The shell comprisies 6-7 somewhat convex whorls. The body whorl equals 3/4 of the shell's length and is somewhat angled at the base, being encircled by a broad straw-colored band. The aperture is oblique and semi-oval, appearing effuse at the base and violet inside. The peristome is expanded and violet, with its margins joined by a thin callus.[3]
