Land snails and slugs of Bau limestone hills, Sarawak (Malaysia, Borneo), with the descriptions of 13 new species
Author
Marzuki, Mohammad Effendi bin
Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia & Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88450, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
fendiemz@gmail.com
Author
Liew, Thor-Seng
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9437-5924
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88450, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
thorsengliew@gmail.com
Author
Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan
Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
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ZooKeys
2021
2021-04-27
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1035.60843
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1035.60843
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Lissachatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822)
Figure 19B
Achatina fulica
Bowdich, 1822: pl. 13, fig. 3.
Type locality.
"L'ile
de France" [= Mauritius].
Material examined.
Gunung Doya: ME 8920, ME 9228. Gunung Kapor: ME 8507, ME 9016, ME 9241.
Distribution in Borneo.
Sarawak: Kuching, Samarahan, Serian, Sibu, Mukah and Miri divisions. Sabah: Kudat, West Coast, Interior, Sandakan and Tawau divisions. Kalimantan.
Distribution elsewhere.
Circumtropical (
Vermeulen and Whitten 1998
).
Remarks.
Living snails were observed foraging among leaf litter and plant debris near the cliff in lowland limestone forest. The species was firstly introduced into Sarawak in 1928 as poultry food and became pest a year later (
Jarrett 1931
). Apparently widespread throughout Borneo.