Amastra melanosis is a species of land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amastridae.[1]
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| Shell of Amastra melanosis (holotype) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Amastridae |
| Genus: | Amastra |
| Species: | A. melanosis
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| Binomial name | |
| Amastra melanosis (Newcomb, 1854)
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- Subspecies
- Amastra melanosis kauensis Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1915
- Amastra melanosis melanosis (Newcomb, 1854)
Description
edit(Original description) The shell is dextral, thin, and conically depressed, with an acute apex. It consists of five rounded whorls, with the body whorl noticeably inflated. The suture is well-impressed, and the aperture is subrotund. The outer lip is simple and thin, while the straight white columella ends in a distinctly oblique plait.
The shell is uniformly black in color.[2]
Distribution
editReferences
edit- ^ Amastra melanosis (Newcomb, 1854). 24 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: 144. Retrieved 19 November 2024.
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