Ampelita lamarei

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Ampelita lamarei
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Shell of Ampelita lamarei (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Acavidae
Genus: Ampelita
Species:
A. lamarei
Binomial name
Ampelita lamarei
(L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
Synonyms
  • Ampelita paulianaFischer-Piette, 1952 (junior synonym)
  • Helix lamareiL. Pfeiffer, 1853 (original combination)
  • Helix stragulumCrosse & P. Fischer, 1873 (junior synonym)

Ampelita lamarei is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Acavidae. [1]

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Subspecies
Ampelita lamarei dendriticaVerdcourt, 2006
Variety
Ampelita lamarei var. sakalava(Angas, 1877)

Description

(Original description in Latin as Helix stragulum) This narrowly umbilicated, very depressed shell is thin, minutely granulose under magnification, and longitudinally impressed with fine growth lines. Chestnut-brown with rare yellowish-straw spots, it features a sub-flattened spire with an obtuse apex and an impressed suture. Four flattened, rapidly increasing whorls are present, the upper 2.5 violaceous-brown, and the body whorl bordered with yellow at the suture. The body whorl is large, sub-depressed above, angulate-keeled slightly above the periphery, and has a convex, inflated base, sub-angulate around the umbilicus. The umbilicus area is dark chestnut, encircled by a pale yellow zone. The large, very oblique, elliptical-ovate aperture is bluish-white inside. The bluish-white peristome is widely reflexed, with margins joined by a thin callus, and the outer margin dilated medially and near the insertion. [2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Madagascar.

References

  1. ↑ Ampelita lamarei (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) . 01 March 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  2. ↑ Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. (1873). "Diagnoses Molluscorum novorum, insulae Madagascar dictae incolarum". Journal de Conchyliologie. 21 (2): 158. Retrieved 1 March 2025.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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