Macrochlamys infans (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)

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/A77327E4-646C-580D-A0A9-B440678468FC

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scientific name

Macrochlamys infans (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
status

 

Macrochlamys infans (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) View in CoL Figure 22C View Figure 22

Helix infans L. Pfeiffer, 1854a: 290.

Type locality.

"Sarawak, Borneo".

Material examined.

Gunung Batu: ME 1858, ME 2854.

Distribution in Borneo.

Sarawak: Kuching Division. Labuan: Endemic to Borneo.

Remarks.

Only dry shells specimens were found during the surveys. It differs from Macrochlamys tersa (Issel, 1874) by having a white shell without spiral sculpture or only with very fine spiral grooves. The taxonomic status and occurrence of M. infans in Java and Bali were discussed in Vermeulen (1996).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Caenogastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Ariophantidae

Genus

Macrochlamys