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) View in CoL 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

SubClass

Caenogastropoda

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