''Amphidromus costifer'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
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 of a ...
, an arboreal
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the family
Camaenidae.
;Subspecies:
* ''Amphidromus costifer costifer''
E. A. Smith, 1893
* A''mphidromus costifer gemmalimae''
Thach, 2020
Description
A large and thick Amphidromus species with strong growth lines. The holotype is 46.5 mm in height, and 29.0 mm in width.
Distribution
The type locality is Annam in Central Vietnam.
References
* Schileyko, A. A. (2011). Check-list of land pulmonate molluscs of Vietnam (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Ruthenica. 21 (1): 1-68.
External links
Smith, E. A. (1893). Descriptions of six new species of land-shells from Annam. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1: 10-13
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costifer
Gastropods described in 1893