Biology:Amphidromus porcellanus
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Short description: Species of gastropod
Amphidromus porcellanus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
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Family: | |
Subfamily: | Camaeninae
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Genus: | |
Subgenus: | Syndromus
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Species: | A. porcellanus
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Binomial name | |
Amphidromus porcellanus (Mousson, 1848)
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Amphidromus porcellanus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Camaenidae.
![](/wiki/images/thumb/4/4e/Amphidromus_porcellanus_reproductive_system.png/250px-Amphidromus_porcellanus_reproductive_system.png)
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 anatomy of this species was described by Carl Arend Friedrich Wiegmann in 1898.[1]
References
Wikidata ☰ Q4748271 entry
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