Amphidromus hosei
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| Amphidromus hosei | |
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| Shell of Amphidromus hosei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphidromus |
| Species: | A. hosei |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphidromus hosei E. A. Smith, 1895 | |
Amphidromus hosei is a species of medium-sized air-breathing tree snail, an arboreal gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.[1]
This is a taxon inquirendum.
The shell is small, rimate, sinistral, elongate, and conic, featuring a narrow reddish-purple line that encircles the middle of the body whorl and appears above the suture. Towards the apex, it is spotted with brown under a very thin pale yellow cuticle. Comprising seven a little convex whorls that are striated with very delicate, oblique growth-lines and increase slowly and regularly, the body whorl is short and stained with black around the narrow umbilical chink. The aperture is inverted auriform and pale yellowish with a median reddish-purple line, slightly exceeding one-third the total length of the shell. The peristome is white, narrowly expanded and reflexed, with the columellar margin being thickened and narrowly dilated.[2]
Habitat
This species lives in trees.
