Amphidromus furcillatus

Amphidromus furcillatus
Shell of Amphidromus furcillatus (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Genus:	Amphidromus
Species:	A. furcillatus
Binomial name
Amphidromus furcillatus (Mousson, 1849)
Synonyms
Amphidromus (Syndromus) furcillatus(Mousson, 1849) alternative representation Bulimus elegansMousson, 1849 junior homonym (invalid; not Serres, 1844 nor L Pfeiffer, 1848) Bulimus furcillatusMousson, 1849 (original name)

Amphidromus furcillatus 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 35 mm, its diameter 18.2 mm.

The sinistral shell is long-conic, subperforate, smooth, and glossy. It exhibits a buff-white base color with grayish-brown flames. Comprising seven a little convex and regularly increasing whorls, the shell features a black tip at the apex. The body whorl measures two-fifths of the total length and appears uniform or spirally two-banded below, while being flammulated above with flames that bifurcate or trifurcate before disappearing at the suture. The aperture is ovate and white, showing the bands through it; the parietal wall is yellowish. The peristome is thin, reflexed, and white, joining the straight and slender columella at an angle, nearly covering the perforation. ^[2]

Habitat

This species lives in trees.

Distribution

The type locality of this species is Java, Indonesia.

References

1. Amphidromus furcillatus (Mousson, 1849) . 12 April 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Tryon, George W., (George Washington), - Baker, H. Burrington (Horace Burrington), - Cooke, C. Montague (Charles Montague), - Hyatt, Alpheus, - Pilsbry, Henry Augustus (1900). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species. Second series, Pulmonata (2 ed.). Philadelphia: published by the authors. p. 217. Retrieved 15 May 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Vermeulen, J. J.; Whitten, A. J. (1998). Guide to the land snails of Bali. 164. Leiden: Backhuys.

External links

• Mousson, A. (1849). Die Land- und Süsswasser- Mollusken von Java. Zürich: Friedrich Schulthess. p. 115. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
• Mousson, A. (1849). "Über die Land- und Süsswassermollusken von Java". Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich. 1 (3): 266.