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Amastra grayana
Amastra grayana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amastridae.
From the article Amastra grayana on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The length of the shell attains 21.5 mm, its diameter 12 mm The shell is imperforate, dextral, ovate-conic, and rather solid, with a slightly glossy surface. It is grayish-flesh colored and irregularly marked with chestnut bands that fade near the upper portion. The spire is inflated-conic with an acute, black apex. The shell contains 6½ whorls; the upper ones are flat and radially plicate, the penultimate whorl is convex, and the body whorl, which is nearly as long as the spire, is finely striate. The aperture is subvertical and acuminate-oval. The columellar fold is median, subtransverse, and triangular. The peristome is simple and unexpanded, with the columellar margin slightly dilated and adnate.
Range & habitat
This species is endemic to Hawaii, occurring on Oahu island. It has been originally recorded from Oahu, evidently in error, since no Oahuan species has flat, radially plicate upper whorls.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 213222.