Ampelita suarezensis

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Ampelita suarezensis
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Shell of Ampelita suarezensis (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Acavidae
Genus: Ampelita
Species:
A. suarezensis
Binomial name
Ampelita suarezensis
(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1877)
Synonyms

Helix suarezensisCrosse & P. Fischer, 1877 (original combination)

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

Description

The height of the shell attains 20 mm, its diameter 46 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The shell is widely and perviously umbilicate. The shell is somewhat depressed and is moderately thick. It shows suboblique rugose striations, and has a uniform pale olive-tawny color. The spire is slightly prominent with a flattened apex. The suture is strongly impressed. Five rather flat whorls are present, the first two somewhat rugose. The body whorl scarcely descends, featuring a strong keel slightly above the middle, a more convex base, and flattening around the umbilicus. The aperture is obliquely subhorizontal, lunate-elliptical, and livid violet-brown inside. The peristome is simple, dirty whitish, with margins joined by a very thin, violet-brown callus. The columellar margin is somewhat dilated, slightly reflexed, and slightly sinuous, while the basal and outer margins are attenuated and subacute. [2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Madagascar.

References

  1. ↑ Ampelita suarezensis (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1877) . 11 March 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  2. ↑ Crosse, H. & Fischer, P. (1877). "Diagnosis Helicis novae, insulae Madagascar dictae incolae". Journal de Conchyliologie. 25 (1): 78. Retrieved 11 March 2025.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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