Amphidromus yangbayensis

Amphidromus yangbayensis
Shell of Amphidromus yangbayensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Camaenidae
Genus:	Amphidromus
Species:	A. yangbayensis
Binomial name
Amphidromus yangbayensis Thach & F. Huber, 2016

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

Description

These snails have stripy shells that spiral to a point. The length of the shell can reach up to almost 40mm for some examples.

Habitat

This species lives in trees and the habitat can be described as 'terrestrial'. ^[2]

Distribution

The type locality of this species is Vietnam.

References

1. Amphidromus yangbayensis Thach & F. Huber, 2016 . 17 May 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. "MolluscaBase - Amphidromus yangbayensis Thach & F. Huber, 2016". molluscabase.org. Retrieved 2025-08-29.

• Thach, N.N. (2016). Vietnamese new mollusks. Seashells – Land snails – Cephalopods. With 59 new species. Akron, Ohio: 48HRBooks Company. p. 70.
• Páll-Gergely, B., Hunyadi, A. & Auffenberg, K. (2020). Taxonomic vandalism in malacology: comments on molluscan taxa recently described by N. N. Thach and colleagues (2014–2019). Folia Malacologia. 28(1): 35–76.
• Thach, N. N. (2021). New shells of South Asia and Taiwan, China, Tanzania. Seashells*Freshwater*Land snails. With 116 new species and subspecies and rejected synonyms, accepted species. 48HRBooks Company, Akron, Ohio, USA. 202 pp.

External links

• Lee, C.-T. [Chi-Tse], Huang, C.-W. [Chih-Wei], Hwang, C.-C. [Chung-Chi] Sutcharit, C & Jirapatrasilp, P. (2022). "Arboreal snail genus Amphidromus Albers, 1850 of Southeast Asia: Shell polymorphism of Amphidromus cruentatus (Morelet, 1875) revealed by phylogenetic and morphometric analyses". PLOS ONE. 17 (8): e0272966. Bibcode:2022PLoSO..1772966L. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272966 . PMC   9423684 . PMID   36037160.