Amastra soror
| Amastra soror | |
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| Shell of Amastra soror (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Amastridae |
| Genus: | Amastra |
| Species: | A. soror
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| Binomial name | |
| Amastra soror (Newcomb, 1854)
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Amastra soror is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amastridae. [1]
- Subspecies
- Amastra soror interjecta Hyatt & Pilsbry, 1911
- Amastra soror laticeps Hyatt & Pilsbry, 1911
- Amastra soror soror (Newcomb, 1854)
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 11.6 mm.
(Original description) The shell is sinistral and conically turreted, comprising seven rounded whorls with a deeply impressed suture. The aperture is small and subovate, with a simple outer lip. The columella is very short, ending in a twisted plicate tooth.
The thin epidermis is dark corneous on the upper portion and light corneous below.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species is endemic to Hawaii and occurs on Maui Island.
References
[edit]- ^ Amastra soror (Newcomb, 1854). 27 November 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Newcomb, W. (1854). "Descriptions of seventy·nine new species of Achatinella, (Swains.), a genus of pulmoniferous mollusks, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 21: 148. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. vi. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers. p. 107.
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