Opisthoporus euryomphalus (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)

Marzuki, Mohammad Effendi bin, Liew, Thor-Seng & Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan, 2021, Land snails and slugs of Bau limestone hills, Sarawak (Malaysia, Borneo), with the descriptions of 13 new species, ZooKeys 1035, pp. 1-113 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1035.60843

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ED19022E-A170-4DB7-9587-FEFE15D07854

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4D33DFF0-6084-5159-8ED1-30C33EBCE196

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scientific name

Opisthoporus euryomphalus (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)
status

 

Opisthoporus euryomphalus (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) Figures 7D View Figure 7 , 46B View Figure 46

Cyclostoma (Opisthoporus) euryomphalum Pfeiffer, 1856: 337.

Type locality.

“Borneo”.

Material examined.

Gunung Doya: ME 1295, ME 8905, ME 9113, ME 9157. Gunung Kapor: ME 1294, ME 1298, ME 1299, ME 8071, ME 8496, ME 8779. Gunung Batu: ME 1300, ME 1301, ME 2613, ME 8807.

Distribution in Borneo.

Sarawak: Kuching Division. Kalimantan: West Kalimantan Province. Endemic to Borneo.

Remarks.

Living snails were observed foraging among leaf litter and plant debris near the cliff in a lowland limestone forest. It differs from O. biciliatus by having a smaller shell without the hairy periostracum.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Architaenioglossa

Family

Cyclophoridae

Genus

Opisthoporus

Loc

Opisthoporus euryomphalus (L. Pfeiffer, 1856)

Marzuki, Mohammad Effendi bin, Liew, Thor-Seng & Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan 2021
2021
Loc

Cyclostoma (Opisthoporus) euryomphalum

Pfeiffer 1857
1857