Amphidromus glaucolarynx

Amphidromus glaucolarynx is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae. ^[1]

Amphidromus glaucolarynx
Shell of Amphidromus glaucolarynx (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Genus:	Amphidromus
Species:	A. glaucolarynx
Binomial name
Amphidromus glaucolarynx (Dohrn, 1861)
Synonyms
Amphidromus glaucolarynx albicans Möllendorff, 1902 (junior synonym) Bulimus glaucolarynx Dohrn, 1861 (original combination) Bulimus schomburgki fasciatus E. von Martens, 1867 junior objective synonym (invalid: unjustified replacement name for Bulimus glaucolarynx)

This is the only one amphidromine (left-handed and right-handed snails occur in the population) species in the subgenus Syndromus.^[2]

Description

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]

Distribution

This species occurs in Thailand.