Kaliella platyconus Moellendorff , 1897

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

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scientific name

Kaliella platyconus Moellendorff , 1897
status

 

Kaliella platyconus Moellendorff, 1897 View in CoL Figure 33C View Figure 33

Kaliella platyconus Möllendorff, 1897b: 59.

Type locality.

“Java”, Indonesia.

Material examined.

Gunung Batu: ME 8814.

Distribution in Borneo.

Sarawak: Kuching and Samarahan divisions. Distribution elsewhere. Sumatra to Sumbawa, Indonesia ( Vermeulen and Whitten 1998).

Remarks.

Living snails were observed foraging among leaf litter and plant debris near the cliff in a lowland limestone forest. The shells from Bau are the first record of this species in Borneo. This species is different from Kaliella barrakporensis (Pfeiffer, 1852) and Kaliella accepta (Smith, 1895) in having a low conical shell with wider whorls.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

SubClass

Caenogastropoda

Order

Stylommatophora

Family

Chronidae

Genus

Kaliella

Loc

Kaliella platyconus Moellendorff , 1897

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

Kaliella platyconus

Moellendorff 1897
1897