Amphidromus heerianus
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| Amphidromus heerianus | |
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| Shell of Amphidromus heerianus (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphidromus |
| Species: | A. heerianus |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphidromus heerianus (L. Pfeiffer, 1871) | |
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Amphidromus heerianus is a species of air-breathing tree snail, an arboreal gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.[1]
The length of the shell varies between 43 mm and 53 mm, its diameter between 24 mm and 28 mm.
The shell is perforate and ovate-conic, appearing rather thin and rudely striate. It is sculptured with very fine and close spiral striae. Its color is pale tawny-whitish, densely streaked with cinnamon, and it exhibits only a slight shine. The spire presents a broadly conic shape with a rather acute apex, and the suture appears superficial and somewhat hair-margined. Comprising six a little convex whorls, the body whorl is more swollen and a little shorter than the spire, featuring a narrow white umbilical patch. The aperture lies slightly oblique and has a somewhat rhombic-oval shape, appearing white and glossy inside. The peristome is rather broadly expanded and narrowly recurved, white, with its margins joined by an entering milk-white callus. The columellar margin is dilated and reflexed. [2]
