Amphidromus buelowi

Amphidromus buelowi is a species of large-sized air-breathing tree snail, an arboreal gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.

• Amphidromus buelowi buelowi <small>Fruhstorfer, 1905</small>
• Amphidromus buelowi malalakensis <small>J. Parsons & Abbas, 2016</small>

Description

The height of the shell varies between 45.3 mm and 51.1 mm, its width between 26.2 mm and 26.6 mm

This chirally dimorphic species has large-sized swollen yellow-brown shell with black zigzag lines.

(Original description in German) The shell consists of 7 flattened whorls with a gray ground color, transitioning to yellowish in younger specimens, marked by broad, randomly intersecting black zigzag lines. The aperture lip is wide and white. The characteristic angularity is evident on the body whorl's anterior margin as a prominent keel.

Distribution

This species occurs in Sumatra, Indonesia and in Đắk Lắk Province, Central Vietnam.

References

• Thach N.N. (2016). Vietnamese new mollusks. Seashells – Land snails – Cephalopods. With 59 new species. Akron, Ohio: 48Hrs Book Company. 157 pp.
• Haas, F. (1934). Neue Landschnecken des Senckenberg-Museums. Senckenbergiana. 16 (2/3): 94-98.

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