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Amphidromus sumbaensis
Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Amphidromus sumbaensis is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae. [1]
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Description
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]
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Distribution
The type species was found on Sumba Island, Indonesia.
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