Amphidromus sumbaensis
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| Amphidromus sumbaensis | |
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| Shell of Amphidromus sumbaensis (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Camaenidae |
| Genus: | Amphidromus |
| Species: | A. sumbaensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Amphidromus sumbaensis Fulton, 1896 | |
Amphidromus sumbaensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 34 mm, its diameter 16 mm.
(Original description) The sinistral shell is oblong-conic, narrowly perforate, and solid. It consists of 6.75 convex whorls. The first two whorls are pale purple. The lower whorls are cream to pale yellow below, ornamented with oblique bluish-grey stripes, which are intersected on the upper whorls by interrupted spiral lines of a darker color. The apex is dark brown. The outer lip is slightly expanded and reflected, pale purple. The columella is thick, purple, and connected to the lip by a thin, red callus.[2]
