Amphidromus cochinchinensis

Amphidromus cochinchinensis
Shell of Amphidromus cochinchinensis (lectotype at the Natural History Museum, London)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Genus:	Amphidromus
Species:	A. cochinchinensis
Binomial name
Amphidromus cochinchinensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
Synonyms
Bulimus cochinchinensisL. Pfeiffer, 1857 (original combination)

Amphidromus cochinchinensis is a species of medium-sized air-breathing tree snail, an arboreal gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 39 mm, its diameter 17 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The solid shell is imperforate, fusiform-ovate, smooth and glossy. It is pale sulfur-yellow or whitish. The spire is somewhat convex-turreted. The apex somewhat blunt. The suture is smooth and pale. The shell contains 6 to 7 whorls, the upper ones rather flat, the following ones more convex, the body whorl nearly equaling 2/3 of the length, attenuate at the base and somewhat compressed. The columella is rope-like and slightly twisted. The aperture is slightly oblique and elliptical-oval. The peristome is somewhat thickened, with the right lip shortly expanded, the columellar margin dilated and adnate. ^[2]

Habitat

This species lives in trees.

Distribution

The type locality of this species is Vietnam.

References

1. Amphidromus cochinchinensis(L. Pfeiffer, 1857) . 15 April 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Pfeiffer, L. (1857). "Descriptions of fifty-eight new species of Helicea from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 24 (321): 331. Retrieved 15 April 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .