''Amphidromus asper'' is a
species
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of large-sized air-breathing
tree snail Tree snail is a common name that is applied to various kinds of tropical air-breathing land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks that have shells, and that live in trees, in other words, are exclusively arboreal in habitat.
Some other species o ...
, an arboreal
gastropod mollusk
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in the family
Camaenidae
Camaenidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea, the typical snails and their allies. This is one of the most diverse families in the clade Stylommatophora.
Thes ...
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Morphology
This species has large-sized swollen yellow-brown shell with black zigzag lines.
Distribution
Đắk Lắk Province,
Central Vietnam
Central Vietnam ( vi, Trung Bộ or ), also known as Middle Vietnam or The Middle, formerly known as by South Vietnam, and Annam under French Indochina, is one of the three geographical regions within Vietnam.
The name Trung Bộ was used by ...
.
References
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asper
Asper may refer to:
*Asper (') breathing mark in romanization of Greek
*Asper (surname)
*Asper, Missouri, a ghost town
*Aemilius Asper, Latin grammarian
*Aspron, a type of late Byzantine silver or billon coins
*Akçe, an Ottoman silver coin, simi ...
Gastropods described in 1934