Diversity and biogeography of land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the limestone hills of Perak, Peninsular Malaysia
Author
Foon, Junn Kitt
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia & Rimba, 22 - 3 A, Casa Kiara 2, Jalan Kiara 5, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Author
Clements, Gopalasamy Reuben
Rimba, 22 - 3 A, Casa Kiara 2, Jalan Kiara 5, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia & Department of Biological Sciences, Sunway University, No. 5 Jalan Universiti, 47500 Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
Author
Liew, Thor-Seng
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia & Rimba, 22 - 3 A, Casa Kiara 2, Jalan Kiara 5, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
thorsengliew@gmail.com
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2017-07-04
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.682.12999
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.682.12999
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Hemiplecta cymatium (Pfeiffer, 1856)
Figure 17D
Materials examined.
mykarst-184
Bat Cave
: BOR/MOL 9855, BOR/MOL 9795, BOR/MOL 9825.
Prk
53
Hill KF
: BOR/
MOL 10740
,
BOR/
MOL 10656
,
BOR/
MOL 10686
.
mykarst-027: BOR/MOL 9104. Prk 55
G. Pondok
: BOR/
MOL 11611
.
Distribution.
In the states of Kedah, Penang, Perak, Kelantan and Pahang in Peninsular Malaysia (
Maassen 2001
). Elsewhere, in Jalor (=Yala), southern Thailand (
Maassen 2001
).
Remarks.
Large shell. Perak shells differ from Penang shells only by their flatter spire. Whorls brown with darker periphery. Peripheral keel pronounced. Shell surface has numerous short spiral crenulations.