Amphidromus perversus

Amphidromus perversus
Abapertural and apertural view of the shell of Amphidromus perversus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Camaenidae
Genus: Amphidromus
Species:
A. perversus
Binomial name
Amphidromus perversus
Synonyms
  • Amphidromus (Amphidromus) perversus (Linnaeus, 1758)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Helix perversa Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)

Amphidromus perversus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Camaenidae.[1]

Amphidromus perversus is the type species of the genus Amphidromus, by the subsequent designation of Eduard von Martens (1860).[2][3]

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Amphidromus perversus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1026814 on 2020-05-17
  2. ^ von Martens E. (1860). Die Heliceen 2nd ed., p. 184.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Laidlaw 1961 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).