Amphidromus porcellanus

Amphidromus porcellanus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.

Reproductive system of Amphidromus porcellanus shows main characteristics of genus Amphidromus: long receptaculum seminis, and short penis with low insertion of retractor muscle. (See notes on the image.)
The jaw of the genus Amphidromus is thin and weak with low flat ribs as it is seen on this jaw of Amphidromus porcellanus.

Amphidromus porcellanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Camaenidae
Subfamily:
Camaeninae
Genus:
Amphidromus
Subgenus:
Syndromus
Species:
A. porcellanus
Binomial name
Amphidromus porcellanus
(Mousson, 1848)

The anatomy of this species was described by Carl Arend Friedrich Wiegmann in 1898.[1]

References
  1. (in German) Wiegmann C. A. F. (1898). "Landmollusken (Stylommatophoren)". Zootomischer Teil. Abhl. Sencken. Naturf. Gesell. 24(3): 519-523, plate 31, figure 12-29.


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