Amphorella melampoides

Amphorella melampoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Family: Ferussaciidae
Genus: Amphorella
Species: A. melampoides
Binomial name
Amphorella melampoides

Amphorella melampoides is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ferussaciidae.

This species is endemic to Madeira, Portugal.

References

  1. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Amphorella melampoides. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
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