Systematic revision of the genus Everettia Godwin-Austen, 1891 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Dyakiidae) in Sabah, northern Borneo
Author
Liew, Thor-Seng
Author
Schilthuizen, Menno
Author
Vermeulen, Jaap Jan
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2009
2009-10-26
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https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00526.x
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00526.x
0024-4082
5443023
EVERETTIA PAULBASINTALI
SP. NOV.
Types:
MALAYSIA
.
State
of
Sabah
.
Tawau District
,
Tawau Hills Park
(
04°27
′
N
,
117°55
′
E
). Collected by T.-
S. Liew
and
Johny Lapidin. Date
:
viii.2007
,
holotype
, BOR/MOL 5498,
Figure 6D
;
four paratypes
, two in
BMNH 20080628
and two in SP 13060
.
Etymology:
This species is named after Paul Basintal, director of
Sabah
Parks, who has served for over 33 years in
Sabah
Parks.
Material examined:
SABAH
– Tabin Wildlife Reserve: BOR/MOL 924, Head Quarters,
iii.2000
; BOR/MOL 926, Base Camp
x.2000
; BOR/MOL 962,
v.2001
; BOR/ MOL 964,
v.2001
; BOR/MOL 928, Tabin Limestone,
x.2000
. Danum Valley: BOR/MOL 5271,
v.2000
; BOR/ MOL 977,
v.2000
. Imbak Valley: BOR/MOL 927, Transit Camp,
vi.2000
; BOR/MOL 5264, Transit Camp,
vi.2000
; SP 12102,
vii.2000
. Kinabatangan: BOR/MOL 1294, Batu Materis,
v.2002
; BOR/MOL 2310, Sukau, 2003; BOR/MOL 3597, Gomantong,
i.2004
; BOR/MOL 5267, Bod Tai,
v.2002
. Tawau: BOR/ MOL 1297, Tawau Hills Park,
ii.2002
; BOR/MOL 4268, Tawau Hills Park,
v.2005
; SP 12704, Tawau Hills Park,
i.2006
; SP 12902, Tawau Hills Park, Mount Magdelena,
ii.2007
; SP 12193, Tawau Hills Park,
ix.2002
; SP 12195, Tawau Hills Park,
ix.2002
; SP 12196, Tawau Hills Park,
ix.2002
; SP 12226, Tawau Hills Park,
iii.2003
; JJ 1876, Batu Baturong,
i.1987
; JJ 7592, Batu Baturong,
vii.2000
; JJ 13165, Tawau Hills Park,
v.2005
; JJ 13195, Tawau Hills Park,
v.2005
; JJ 13208, Tawau Hills Park,
v.2005
. Lahad Datu: JJ 1255, Segama Valley, Kirk’s Cave,
ix.1986
; JJ 7499, Segama valley,
vii.2000
; JJ 7789, Segama valley,
x.2000
.
Diagnostic characteristics:
Shell surface with densely placed radial threads.
Description:
Shell (
Figs 6D
,
10D, E
): large, rather thin, yellowish brown. Spire moderately elevated, outer whorls slightly shouldered below the suture. Periphery slightly shouldered to almost rounded, more distinctly angular in juveniles. Above the periphery, shell silky with very densely placed radial threads and somewhat cut by irregularly spaced spiral grooves. Below the periphery, shell has fine, densely placed spiral grooves. Height up to
19.5 mm
; width up to
25.5 mm
; diameter of the first three whorls 0.8–0.9, 0.7–0.8, and
1.4–1.5 mm
, respectively; number of whorls up to five and a half; height aperture up to
13 mm
; width aperture up to
13.5 mm
. Genitalia (
Fig. 7C
): maximum length from genital opening to the end of dart-sac (before the visible gland tubules) up to
14 mm
. The penis, dart-sac, and vagina with thick muscular walls. P, V, GO, BC, and DS arranged around the short genital atrium, limited space between the openings of each of the genital structures. BC about one-quarter to one-third of total DS length. Animal: black bands on either side of the tentacles separated by a white band that occupies the space between the eye tentacles, and extends backward to the end of the mantle and downward to just below the eye tentacles. Other parts of the animal are covered by regularly spaced oblique dotted belts. The mantle is covered by black irregular markings and followed by regularly spaced radial darker brown bands at the last half whorl.
Distribution and habitat:
Primary forest until
1400 m
.
Sabah
: Danum Valley, Kinabatangan, Tabin Wildlife Reserve, Tawau Hills Park, Imbak Valley (
Fig. 5B
).
Remarks:
Some of the populations on the left bank of the Segama river (area around Imbak Valley, Danum Valley, and Kinabatangan) have coarser radial threads and these are cut by more closely placed spiral grooves than in the populations with typical sculpture from the right bank of the Segama river (Tabin and Tawau area).