Hemiplecta cymatium (L. Pfeiffer, 1856 )

Goh, Soo-Mun, Jasrul, Dulipat, Lee, Mei-Yi, Vermeulen, Jaap J. & Liew, Thor-Seng, 2025, From 153 - year-old records to contemporary discoveries: land snail (Mollusca, Gastropoda) diversity in Penang Hill, Malaysia, ZooKeys 1230, pp. 99-154 : 99-154

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scientific name	Hemiplecta cymatium (L. Pfeiffer, 1856 )
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Hemiplecta cymatium (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) View in CoL

Figs 8 C View Figure 8 , 20 C View Figure 20

Material examined.

Malaysia • Penang Hill, The Habitat, Research trail, Plot. 01 ; 5.4248 ° N, 100.2669 ° E; 720 m a. s. l.; 5 Sept. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh leg.; BOR/MOL 15161 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, The Habitat, Research trail, Plot. 02 ; 5.4237 ° N, 100.2649 ° E; 720 m a. s. l.; 5 Sept. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh leg.; BOR/MOL 15158 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, The Habitat, Habitat nature trail, Plot. 05 ; 5.4228 ° N, 100.2653 ° E; 770 m a. s. l.; 5 Sept. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh leg.; BOR/MOL 15136 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, The Habitat, Research trail, Plot. 06 ; 5.4247 ° N, 100.2674 ° E; 750 m a. s. l.; 5 Sept. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh, M. Y. Lee, M. Y. Wua leg.; BOR/MOL 15137 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, The Habitat, Habitat nature trail, Plot. 07 ; 5.4210 ° N, 100.2642 ° E; 760 m a. s. l.; 6 Sept. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR/MOL 15087 GoogleMaps • same data as for preceding; BOR/MOL 15105 GoogleMaps • same data as for preceding; BOR/MOL 15142 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, The Habitat, Habitat nature trail, Plot. 08 ; 5.4223 ° N, 100.2648 ° E; 760 m a. s. l.; 6 Sept. 2022; J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR/MOL 15096 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, Botanical garden, Plot. 12 ; 5.4396 ° N, 100.2860 ° E; 85 m a. s. l.; 4 Sept. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, S. M. Goh leg.; BOR/MOL 15092 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, Teluk Bahang, Taman Rimba Teluk Bahang, Trail, Simpang 6, Plot. 16 ; 5.4429 ° N, 100.2212 ° E; 120 m a. s. l.; 21 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat, M. Y. Lee leg.; BOR/MOL 15269 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, Teluk Bahang-Balik Pulau, Entrance of a durian farm, near Boulder Valley, Old rubber tree, Plot. 17 ; 5.418 ° N, 100.2159 ° E; 180 m a. s. l.; 22 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat leg.; BOR/MOL 15277 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, Air Itam, Forest near Dam, Plot. 24 ; 5.3904 ° N, 100.2612 ° E; 380 m a. s. l.; 24 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat leg.; BOR/MOL 15220 GoogleMaps • same data as for preceding; BOR/MOL 15290 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, Air Itam, Forest near Dam, Plot. 25 ; 5.3900 ° N, 100.2575 ° E; 290 m a. s. l.; 25 Oct. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat leg.; BOR/MOL 15294 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, Botanical garden, Plot. 29 ; 5.4400 ° N, 100.2866 ° E; 75 m a. s. l.; 2 Feb. 2023; T. S. Liew, M. Y. Lee, A. Yusni leg.; BOR/MOL 15736 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, By Path H, Plot. 33 ; 5.4210 ° N, 100.2701 ° E; 610 m a. s. l.; 4 Feb. 2023; T. S. Liew, A. Yusni leg.; BOR/MOL 15735 GoogleMaps • Penang Hill, Path B, Random 1. PathB ; 5.4216 ° N, 100.2674 ° E; 730 m a. s. l.; 4 Sept. 2022; T. S. Liew, J. Dulipat leg.; BOR/MOL 15104 GoogleMaps • same data as for preceding; BOR/MOL 15148 GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

One of the most common large land snails at Penang Hill, with a shell width of up to 40 mm. It is also known from other localities in Peninsular Malaysia. This species can also be found in Perak ( Maassen 2001; Foon et al. 2017).

References

Foon JK, Clements GR, Liew TS (2017) Diversity and biogeography of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the limestone hills of Perak, Peninsular Malaysia. ZooKeys 682: 1–94. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.682.12999

Maassen WJM (2001) A preliminary checklist of the non-marine molluscs of West Malaysia. De Kreukel (extra edition 2001) 2001: 1–155.

Pfeiffer L (1856) Descriptions of twenty-five new species of land-shells, from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London 24 (302): 32; 24 (303): 33 - 36. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860555

Figures

Figure 8. A Oospira penangensis (Stoliczka, 1873) BOR / MOL 15243 B Prosopeas tchehelense (de Morgan, 1885) BOR / MOL 15162 C Hemiplecta cymatium (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) BOR / MOL 15736 D Microcystina Penang sp. 1 BOR / MOL 15754. Scale bars: 10 mm (A – C); 0.5 mm (D).

Figure 20. A Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822) B Oospira penangensis (Stoliczka, 1873) C Hemiplecta cymatium (L. Pfeiffer, 1856) D Parmarion martensi Simroth, 1893 E Tanychlamys indica (Godwin Austen, 1883) F Tanychlamys Penang sp. 1.