Kaliella microconus (Mousson, 1865)

Lee, Jie Ying, Nasir, Nurul Syafiqah, Marzuki, Mohammad Effendi, Vermeulen, Jaap J. & Khalik, Mohd Zacaery, 2024, The land snail fauna of Batu Kudik, isolated limestone outcrop near Simunjan, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo (Mollusca, Gastropoda), Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. 115556-115556 : 115556

Kaliella microconus (Mousson, 1865)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: MZU.MOL.22.454 ; individualCount: 2; occurrenceID: 530F5D89-E965-5072-91CC-AE4900E75034; Taxon : family: Chronidae ; genus: Kaliella ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mousson, 1865); Location : locality: Batu Kudik , Simunjan, Sarawak Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ME 13370 ; individualCount: 8; occurrenceID: E4BC73B9-BBF9-5436-B98C-B9E3417A19DC; Taxon : family: Chronidae ; genus: Kaliella ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mousson, 1865); Location : locality: Batu Kudik , Simunjan, Sarawak Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: ME 13904 ; individualCount: 5; occurrenceID: B644A736-60E4-52A2-9701-3F4C77D03673; Taxon : family: Chronidae ; genus: Kaliella ; scientificNameAuthorship: (Mousson, 1865); Location : locality: Batu Kudik, Simunjan, Sarawak

Distribution

Sarawak: Kuching, Serian, Samarahan and Miri Divisions ( Marzuki et al. 2021). Sabah: Interior, Kudat, Sandakan, Tawau and West Coast Divisions ( Vermeulen and Liew 2022). Distribution elsewhere: Indonesia: South Kalimantan Provinces, South-east Asia to Australia and the Pacific Islands ( Mousson 1865; Vermeulen and Whitten 1998).

Notes

Living snails were observed amongst the leaf litter and plant debris near the limestone cliff. The representative is shown in Fig. 23 . The identification of the species was based on the original description by Mousson (1865) and species description by Marzuki et al. (2021). Neotype, not seen (MNHN-IM-2000-28605).

Figures

Figure 23. Apertural, posterial, umbilical and apical views of Kaliella microconus (ME 13370). Scale = 1 mm.