Cacao amphidromus (Amphidromus furcillatus)

Cacao amphidromus (Amphidromus furcillatus) is a species of animal in the Camaenidae, arboreal snails that live in trees in wet and dry ecosystems, have large and hard shells, two pairs of antennae in front, often found solitary or in pairs.

A. furcillatus has a hard shell with six grades, length 35 mm, diameter 18.2 mm, green or yellow or brown with brown or bright red stripes, gates have thick margins that are light in color with dark bands.



Body surface rough and white or yellow or brown. A pair of large, long, erect, brightly colored antennae and light colored hammer tips. The front pair of antennas are shorter and smaller.

Amphidromus snails live arboreal, climbing large and woody trees in wet or dry ecosystems in rarely disturbed forests, hard to find on agricultural land, solitary or in pairs on the same tree.

TAXON

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Infraclass: Euthyneura
Subterclass: Tectipleura
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Camaenidae
Subfamily: Camaeninae
Genus: Amphidromus Linnaeus (1758)
Species: Amphidromus furcillatus Mousson (1849)

SYNONYMS

Amphidromus (Syndromus) furcillatus (1849)
Bulimus elegans Mousson (1849)
Bulimus furcillatus Mousson (1849)

PUBLICATIONS

Mousson, A. (1849). Die Land- und Süsswasser- Mollusken von Java. Zurich: Friedrich Schulthess. iv + 126 pp., 22 pls. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14301934

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Cacao amphidromus
Indonesia: Bekicot cacao
Java: Bekicot cacao

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